Famous Quotes
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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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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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.
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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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I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
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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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I don't feel famous.
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I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
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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'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.
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Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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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 working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.
