Famous Quotes

• I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

  

  Nicole Sullivan
  • Life
  • Stuff
  • Buy

• It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Famous

• It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

  

  Frank Black
  • People
  • Work
  • Famous

• I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

  

  David McCallum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Thinking
  • Famous
  • Perception

• In the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu was very brave and won many battles, but in the end he failed. Treat people with sincerity and build a good organization. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter how famous or how capable you are.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
  • Good
  • Organization

• I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber Rose, Tori Spelling. . . . the list goes on and on.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Rose
  • Cousin

• 'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Risk

• The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

  

  David Tang
  • Famous

• What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Family
  • Couple
  • Famous

• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Rest
  • Famous

• We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Interesting
  • Los Angeles
  • Ambassador

• The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

  

  Rene Magritte
  • Lying
  • Written
  • Representation

• 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.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Famous
  • Guilty

• It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Happy
  • Famous
  • Necessary

• The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Powerful
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Men
  • Real
  • Friendship

• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Job
  • Famous

• I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

  

  Lizzo
  • Famous
  • Awesome

• When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

  

  Lola Kirke
  • Famous

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