Famous Quotes
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
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I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
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It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
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As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
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I don't do ski racing to be famous.
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My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
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Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.
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In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
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Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.
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My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.
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Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.
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It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
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There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.
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I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.
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Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
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I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.
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I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.
