Top 1200 Famous People Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

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

Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.

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.

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

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

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

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

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

I think a famous parent is really different from a famous grandparent. My parents are very successful, but no one knows who they are, and they live a completely grounded, homey life. I'm friends with the Gummer girls, whose mum is Meryl Streep, and that feels from the outside like a different kind of burden.

People think I can't go shopping - that's their perception of how famous I am.

Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.

Compared to Alia, it's little more difficult for Shaheen, as she has a famous father and a famous sibling, too. So, I always tell my daughters to not to pay much heed to these expectations and give more importance to their dreams. They should keep working hard and find their own talent.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

I still think it's mind-blowing when famous people know who I am.

I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

People outside of tennis, all the famous actors and everyone, knows Wimbledon.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous....You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lens. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. It would be churlish to say there's nothing good about being famous; to have a total stranger walk up to you as you're walking around Safeways, and say a number of nice things that they might say about your work.

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'