Top 1200 Merchant Of Venice Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that's not how things works. These are real human beings. They don't just date to get more famous. They're already the most famous artists!

When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.'

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.

I'm not famous. I work with famous people.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

There are few celebrities that I don't know personally. And compared to the rich, most of the famous live in the poorhouse. It's much better to be rich than famous.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I'm rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you're name is. If you don't, you're nameless.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

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.

One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I've been such a big fan of his acting.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

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