Famous Quotes

• Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • Famous

• It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Responsibility
  • Famous

• Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • True
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Son

• I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Planning
  • Princess

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

  

  Clarence Day
  • Men
  • Real
  • Friendship

• Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

  

  Kam Williams
  • Literature
  • Famous

• I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Famous

• Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Famous

• I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

  

  Kathleen Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • Famous

• As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.

  

  Colm Feore
  • Famous

• I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • She
  • Single

• I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness. Look you, Niafer, I had thought I would be changed when I had become a famous champion, but for all that I stand posturing here with this long sword, and am master of the hour and of the future, I remain the boy that last Thursday was tending pigs.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Long
  • Future
  • Boy

• I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Children
  • School
  • Husband

• Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Opinion
  • Famous
  • Intuition

• Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

  

  Aaron Brookner
  • Famous

• I didn't get into skating to be famous.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Famous

• No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Memories

• For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Famous

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

  

  Bob Saget
  • Famous

• When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Black
  • Famous

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