Top 1200 Famous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

It's such a great honor to be a part of the Subway Famous Fan Family.

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

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

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

I always hear people saying, "If I can just help one person, or if I can just stop one person from doing what I did." I don't think one person is enough. I feel you can help more than one person, help as many as you can. That's something that I would like to leave as my legacy: That I helped a lot of people and made some people make better decisions after looking at the decisions I've made in my life.

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

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

The more famous you become, the better you can get the job in front of you.

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

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Bigg Boss' made me famous, and I enjoyed the attention.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Naples is famous for its handmade ties so I always buy them there.

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

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

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

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.