Top 1200 Merchant Of Venice Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit.

Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

I get intimidated by famous people. When I'm around them and they look at me like I belong, I'm like, 'Are you nuts? You're freakin' famous!' Whether it's Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it's humbling to be in a room with these folks.

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!

The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

Venice Beach is incredibly quiet at night: no streetlights, no traffic, hummingbirds in the garden, palm trees everywhere.

Hearing other celebrities moaning about the bad things about being famous - there is no worst thing. If you don't want to be famous, just stop it and go and be a doctor or a teacher.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

I've met a lot of famous people. I'm lucky enough to have been able to be Elvira. I would probably have to say the most famous is probably Elvis Presley, though. I spent an evening, a night, and part of the next day with him.

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

I spent six years before the mast on all types of merchant ships, and naturally I feel well qualified for seafaring roles.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

Famous-ness is awesomeness... but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Famous-ness is awesomeness but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.

I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.

I don't want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.