Top 1200 Famous People Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I don't want to be in front of the camera forever. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever. I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

It wasn't like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people - they knew that that's what they wanted to do when they were young.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

People are unfair when you're married to someone famous. They believe you haven't got thoughts of your own. That's where they are wrong.

Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous.

Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

It is a pleasure for me when 'Rise,' which many people loved, was covered by a famous group like IZ'ONE.

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

I got obsessed with impersonations: impersonating people that I knew - people, not famous people but people like my family. At first, it was just fun; it's always been just fun. But I sort of got to a point in maybe seventh or eighth grade where I started getting heavily involved in drama programs via programs in my high school.

I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Once I became more famous, I was proud that people in Asia started to look towards me.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I've learned how to be famous and a lot of people don't prepare for it and it's something that can change life for the better or for the worst.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one thing if [ a celebrity ] has an incredible character and you're really going to be able to delve into their personality – that's great. But you can never get real purity if people have been spoiled by the camera and don't trust you. I like feeling that I'm able to be a voice for those people who aren't famous, the people that don't have the great opportunities.

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular.

But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.

What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

People who have now become famous and say that they never had a plan B in mind, it doesn't work like that.

The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.

I find it really weird, when I'm shopping in Tesco, the amount of times I have people like: 'What you doing in here? You're famous!'

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.