Famous Quotes
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
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My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
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I've learned it's not about being famous and big money. L.A. can be a fun place, but when it comes down to it - and this might sound hokey - there's no place like home.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.
