Top 1200 World Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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.

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

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.

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.

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

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

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.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

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

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.

'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world.

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.

When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.

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.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

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

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

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

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.

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.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

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.

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.'

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?

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.

I am delighted to have signed for Manchester United, one of the most famous clubs in the world.

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

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

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

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

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

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.

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

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.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

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

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.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

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 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.

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

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

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.

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.