Famous Quotes

• People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Famous
  • Loners

• Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Confidence

• The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Mom

• There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Famous

• My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Dream
  • Star
  • Famous

• Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was 'Girl, Interrupted' Angelina Jolie. There isn't anybody that I can definitely point to and be like her. Because I've never felt like I've been able to relate to the women that are famous.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Women
  • She
  • Girl

• I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Famous

• When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Famous
  • Sense
  • Develop

• One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

  

  Aubrey O'Day
  • Important
  • House
  • Reality

• Would you like to be famous? In what way?

  

  Daniel Jones Savage Garden
  • Way
  • Famous

• If you are famous, you should find someone who understands your profession but doesn't do it.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Famous

• A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

  

  Diplo
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Inspired

• If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Perception

• I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Famous

• I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Music
  • Famous
  • Talent Show

• It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Today
  • Lost
  • Couple

• I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • People
  • Famous

• 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
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Sales

• Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Done
  • Book
  • Famous

• I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Star
  • Famous

• I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Famous
  • Substance
  • I Hate

• It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Mind
  • Famous

• I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

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