Famous Quotes
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It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
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My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
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I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
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I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.
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No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.
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I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
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I never thought about being famous.
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I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
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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.
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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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In his litany of famous immigrants who have contributed mightily to America, JFK does not mention a single woman, African or Asian. All are males and all were from Europe, except one West Indian: Alexander Hamilton. And JFK assures the nation, 'Immigrants would still be given tests for health, intelligence, morality and security...'
