Famous Quotes

• In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!

  

  Lizzie Brochere
  • Work
  • American
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • People
  • Years
  • Moved On

• io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Time
  • Famous

• Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  

  John Milton
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• 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
  • Dream
  • Freedom
  • Focus

• Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Famous
  • Guys
  • Hit

• When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Real
  • Looks
  • Humans

• Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Hate
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Desire
  • Learn
  • Actress

• I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Up
  • Band
  • Boy

• Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

  

  Chris Rock
  • Famous

• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Family
  • Italian
  • Cousin

• Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • May
  • Society
  • Brave

• I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Car

• Up till now the development of proto-consciousness, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Famous

• 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.'

  

  Alice Eve
  • School
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• 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.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

  

  Emily Robison
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Famous

• But I don't feel the need to be famous.

  

  Jessica Alba
  • Famous

• When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  January Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Star

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