Famous Quotes

• My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Famous
  • Fruit
  • Classmates

• 'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Career

• No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Live

• They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

  

  Charlotte Church
  • Life
  • Job
  • Famous

• All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Men
  • Famous
  • Say

• I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Up
  • Business
  • Wine

• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  

  Courtney Love
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Money
  • Done
  • Guy

• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Democracy

• I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.

  

  David Harewood
  • Women
  • School
  • Together

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I'm kinda famous for my barbecues - I'm always hosting parties.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Famous

• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • She
  • Popular
  • Look

• But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Freedom
  • Famous
  • Partner

• I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Famous

• I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Famous

• When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Weird

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous.

  

  Frank Dillane
  • Time
  • Famous

• My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Father
  • Purpose
  • Wall

• I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Remember
  • City
  • River

• I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Famous

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