Famous Quotes
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Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.
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There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.
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I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.
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I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
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When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
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I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
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I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
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Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
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Creation is in fact a fault, man’s famous sin thereby appearing as a minor version of a much graver one. What are we guilty of, except of having followed, more or less slavishly, the Creator’s example? Easy to recognize in ourselves the fatality which was His: not for nothing have we issued from the hands of a wicked and woebegone god, a god accursed.
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It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
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Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
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Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
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I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
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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.
