Famous Quotes
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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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 don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
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I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
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Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
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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 became famous almost before I had a craft.
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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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Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
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I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
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When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
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Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
