Top 995 Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

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?'

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

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

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea.

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

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

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

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

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

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

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.