Famous Quotes
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Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
Jessica Cutler -
Once in the 1930s, the Inland Revenue did an investigation into Yeats's tax returns because they could not believe someone so famous could have such small sales. One should never allow oneself to be discouraged by small sales. As Pinter says, I stuck to my guns.
John Banville
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I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
Mike Posner -
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
Doug TenNapel -
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 -
Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
Frank Ocean -
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
Al Pacino -
When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.
Phyllis Smith
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I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.
Jesse Eisenberg -
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
Chevy Chase -
Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?
Drew Carey -
I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.
Jodie Whittaker -
I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
Jeanne Calment -
I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
NeNe Leakes
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I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.
Jaleel White -
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
Zach Braff -
I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.
Lucky Blue Smith -
It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
Alan Yang -
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
Sia LSD -
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.
Lionel Shriver
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Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
Elisha Cuthbert -
I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
Lefty Gomez -
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Clyde Tombaugh -
Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize.
David Hepworth