Top 660 Famous Quotes

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
Meghan Daum
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Jesse Owens
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Harrison Ford
You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can’t go back to living the way you did before because you’ve been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
There were so much affairs of me created by the media… of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us.
Nicolas Chamfort
I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.
Nipsey Hussle
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don’t be an actor because you think you’re going to get famous, because that’s luck.
Whoopi Goldberg
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
Jay-Z
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Bill O’Reilly
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on top all the time, it isn’t natural.
Olivia De Havilland
If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
Ron White
I don’t want to be famous famous. I’m happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.
Gabrielle Reece
I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
Alison Lohman
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want t

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.
Shania Twain
I wasn’t trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn’t the first thing I wanted.
G-Dragon
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
Jeff Bridges
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins
There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way.
Geri Halliwell
There’s so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there’s no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I’m 24, I don’t have a family, I don’t need to make tons of money, and I’m not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire
I don’t feel famous.
Uma Thurman
You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.
Adriana Lima
I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Jeremy Northam
The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
Anderson Cooper
On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.
Ahmed Zewail
I don’t care about being famous.
J.I.D
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
Claudia Schiffer
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.
Slobodan Milosevic
When I first got famous in the ’60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we’re all the same. Somebody’s not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery – we’re all the same.
Aubrey O’Day
I don’t have famous neighbours and if I did, I’d avoid them. I don’t live the jet-set.
Vanessa Paradis
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it’s just an illusion.
Juliette Binoche
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis
I’m famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain
Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
Francesca Annis
I’m not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
Jonathan Tucker
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
Michael Bolton
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
Wilhelm Steinitz
Well I would say that we’re regular people first of all and we’re normal and it’s obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we’re not immune to tragedy.
Brett Favre
There’s this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there’s no talent you won’t get the part.
Lily Collins
You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.
Anthony Holden
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don’t survive in solo careers.
Don Henley
I keep saying I’m not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
Freida Pinto
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee
I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
Hugh Jackman
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you’re familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, ’70s and ’80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.
J. D. Vance
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert Morgan
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
Martin Yan
I’m really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
Lyle Lovett
I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Valentino Rossi

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