Famous Quotes
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I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
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If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.
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Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
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I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.
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When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
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Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.
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I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
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I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
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I am famous in my little food world, one of the top 50 chefs, but I don't want to look back in 10 years and think that I didn't use my voice.
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Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.
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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
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For me, anytime I see a mother truly loving her child, famous or not, it brings a smile to my face. I think most people would agree.
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I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me.
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You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
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I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.
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A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
