Famous Quotes

• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Famous

• I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

  

  Kim Weston
  • Famous
  • Uncle

• I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Mom
  • Famous

• I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Real
  • Success
  • Famous

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• 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.

  

  David Suchet
  • Responsibility
  • Famous

• When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

  

  Marina Warner
  • Model
  • Famous

• '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.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Famous

• Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Progression
  • Forgetting

• Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Easy
  • Start
  • Author

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Famous

• Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Up
  • Mountain
  • Drug

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Theaters
  • Fiasco

• Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

  

  Frida Lyngstad
  • Famous

• I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • World
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Strength

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Restaurants
  • Concert

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