Top 1200 Famous Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

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.

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

I'm more famous now than when I was famous.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

My mother was loved by so many people, famous and not so famous.

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where we'd seen him. And we're embarrassed to say that we didn't know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' is one of my favourite films.

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true. Joey McIntyre is great. He is a real actor too; he is just not a famous boy-band musician.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.