Top 1200 Merchant Of Venice Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

If I'm going to be famous, I want to be famous for doing something good - having talent.

The merchant has no country .

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

We're in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it's their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they'll be famous if they have vast breast implants and might as well die if they don't.

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.