Top 1200 Merchant Of Venice Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

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

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

Venice is eternity itself.

The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.

You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.

My mother was loved by so many people, famous and not so famous.

I've always been famous. It's just who you famous to.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

I'm more famous now than when I was famous.

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

In memory Venice is always magic.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.