Top 995 Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

A lot of people in the Isle of Man support me and it makes it all worthwhile when people are interested in what you're doing. I dunno if the word 'famous' is appropriate, but I'm quite well known on the Isle of Man.

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.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

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.

Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.

My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

Mustard oil is not popular in Kerala at all. We have coconut oil and refined oil. I've tried some sweets and, of course, the famous fish, hilsa! I have a cook here with me, so he made it in our style.

I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

The scientists I looked up to at the beginning were not Latino. They were famous scientists of many years ago, like Madame Curie. Later, I realized that there were also, but a very few, Latino scientists. There were good ones, but very few, because there wasn't as much a tradition to be a scientist in our culture. But this is changing.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

And when I get famous, I want to donate to people who don't have homes, jobs, anything.

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

I want to be famous everywhere.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.