Top 100 Quotes About Famous
#1. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
#2. After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.
Roger Ross Williams
#4. Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.
Kelli O'Hara
#5. You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!
Nelson Mandela
#6. I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
Maeve Binchy
#8. If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
Thom Yorke
#10. Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd
#11. This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.
Becky Adams
#12. I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous ... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.
Edie Campbell
#13. This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#14. Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than ... " I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned!
Alex Garland
#15. the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness.
Charles Bukowski
#16. I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important.
Frederick Lenz
#17. We have become famous for religious gatherings rather than individual personal work with God.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Bards sing songs and act girly. Thus, they're kind of useless in a fight, but make good support characters. Kind of half wizard half healer with a bit of skills master and warrior thrown in. If you want to be a super famous rock star in the Middle Ages, but suck at fighting, play a Bard.
David Dostaler
#19. That's the beauty of the famous scientific method. You observe your subject, ask questions, and then research before establishing a hypothesis.
Claudia Burgoa
#20. I'm more famous now than when I was famous,
Louise Suggs
#21. I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.
Nicky Hilton
#22. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.
Louisa May Alcott
#23. I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.
Tommy Wiseau
#24. I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.
Christian Slater
#25. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
Michael Douglas
#27. Abby, come on. No guy on this planet would say no to their girl in the famous metal bikini.
Ashlan Thomas
#28. Your mother was a saint, if there ever was one. She's smiling on you today, you know that, right?" "I know." "Boy did she love you." "I wish I felt like I knew her," I said, like I always said. "Know yourself, and you'll know her," Dad said, another one of his famous sayings. "You're a lot like her.
Jennifer Handford
#29. There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#30. You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
Usain Bolt
#31. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
Carl Honore
#32. From the moment that Watanabe locked eyes with Louie Zamperini, an officer, a famous Olympian, and a man for whom defiance was second nature, no man obsessed him more.
Laura Hillenbrand
#33. There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
Al Jourgensen
#34. I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.
Avril Lavigne
#35. It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.
Renzo Rosso
#36. Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.
Roy Blount Jr.
#37. When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Stevie Nicks
#38. Mari was what was known as an underachiever, which even an underachiever knew was sociology code for "overfailer." She was famous in the Lore for the simple fact that one day she might be worth being famous. All hype-no substance. That was Mari.
Kresley Cole
#39. I want to do an 'Extreme Makeover' show. You know that MTV show 'I Want To Have A Famous Face'? Well, I want to do a new show. I want to have a different famous face.
Pauly Shore
#40. I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
Bruce Dickinson
#42. I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.
Danny Elfman
#43. I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.
Elle King
#45. I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
Caitlin Moran
#46. It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.
Bob Dylan
#47. He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.
Virginia Woolf
#48. When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.
Lynda Barry
#49. Her name is Feather. Feather is apparently very famous for choreographing several hit Broadway shows. She also must be pretty hard up for cash if she'd agree to choreograph a snoozer like Braid! But whatever.
Meg Cabot
#50. For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.
Ricki Lake
#51. You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
Zakk Wylde
#52. I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
Zach Braff
#53. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
Jenny Holzer
#54. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?
J.R. Rain
#55. I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.
Jane Austen
#56. This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.
Tom Ford
#57. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
Jostein Gaarder
#58. Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman
#59. I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#60. Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
Arthur Schopenhauer
#61. remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#62. You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
Brett Somers
#63. Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.
Chris Matakas
#64. I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
Jessica Alba
#65. A lot of people are lost 2016 famous and non famous, relative and friends. A lot of people have also been lost in 2014 it's a fact!
Deyth Banger
#66. I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.
Scott Eastwood
#67. I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.
Terry Pratchett
#68. I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.
Linda Ronstadt
#69. When I left America I understood the formation of public opinion in Southeast Asia. I had had the best course possible, taught by a famous Asian expert. Two minutes at Chulalongkorn taught me that I might just as profitably have studied the zither.
Carol Hollinger
#70. I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
Katherine Jenkins
#71. I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.
Robin Leach
#72. I just want to be rich and famous.
Ian Hart
#73. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair
#74. My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
Joel McHale
#75. Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
Seth Rogen
#76. I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
Tom Hollander
#78. People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.
Edward St. Aubyn
#80. Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
Jessica Cutler
#81. Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals ... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
Cyndi Lauper
#82. I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".
Katherine Heigl
#83. I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
Henry Rollins
#84. Congratulations, Jethro. She's sweet on you. You've just taken one the world's most famous role models of feminine independence and turned her into a giddy, flustered mess of hormones.
Penny Reid
#85. I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Kat Dennings
#87. Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Richard Ernst
#88. I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Haruki Murakami
#89. Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
Carl Forti
#90. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.
Ron Carlson
#91. I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
Ellen DeGeneres
#92. Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
Chris Christie
#93. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
Daniel Radcliffe
#94. I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.
Ricky Gervais
#95. My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
Kate Bush
#97. I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-Pain
#98. The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt
#99. It's been a strange [summer] ... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers ... Of course, I included myself.
Weegee
#100. Consider the famous syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." So far, so good. But just because all men are mortal, it does not follow that all mortals are men, and it certainly does not follow that all men are Socrates.
Carol Tavris
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