Top 1200 Famous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.

With a famous name, you have to work that much harder to get the part.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

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

To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous.

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

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I started with the two-handed backand before Borg was famous.

AOC understands how to be famous. It's got to be natural. It's genuine.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I always dreamt of being famous, and dreams do come true.

I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.

I'm safer being with someone more famous than me.

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

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

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

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

If you are famous, you should find someone who understands your profession but doesn't do it.

You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.

If you want to be really famous you have to go on TV every day.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

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

I've heard it said that you stop growing from the age you get famous.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I like twinsets, and I'm famous for always wearing crop tops.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

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

The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters.