Famous Quotes
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Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
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You have to work hard in the industry. I didn't come into the industry and into the business and to do what I do to become famous. But I knew in the back of my head that if fame came along with it, that was a blessing. I love when someone recognizes me or wants an autograph. But for me it was about working rather than being a 'star'.
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I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
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How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? 'Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.'
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But I don't feel the need to be famous.
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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
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The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
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I did quite a lot of TV shows over the latter half of 2004 - all those 100 Greatest and 100 Worst and all that kind of stuff. So I was a little bit overexposed. But I think you need to do that once in your career, and that's how you become famous. You get overexposed once, and then people know your name and you can relax a bit.
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I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
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I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
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I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.
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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
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I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
Charles B. Rangel -
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
