Famous Quotes
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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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You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
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I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
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Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.
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I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
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I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
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I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.
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I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
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I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
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There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
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If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
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I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
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I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series.
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I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.
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Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
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When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
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My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
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My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.
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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
