Famous Quotes
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
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Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.
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I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
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I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.
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Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.
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It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
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My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him.
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What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
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He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
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Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
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What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.
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I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
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Once you're famous you can't go back.
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Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
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I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
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To play anybody real and famous is very scary.
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Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.
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Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
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I'm gonna be famous forever.
