Famous Quotes
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
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For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
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When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.
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Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
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Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
