Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together.
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
I’ve only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
When the Happy Mondays first got famous, I just thought, ‘I deserve this, I deserve to sell records.’
I can never really enjoy being famous.
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
I didn’t get rich and famous, but I do what I love.
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
It’s nice to have famous people love you.
I made myself famous by writing ‘songs’ and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don’t teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There’s no story there.
I love singing – singing is what I’m famous for doing. Now it’s turned into things I am famous for doing – like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
I don’t have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
It doesn’t matter if you’re famous or infamous. All that matters is you’re a celebrity.
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don’t know who they are. I’ve never seen anything they’ve done and their careers are over already. They’re famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
I’m glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we’re famous all over the world.
When you’re poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.
There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.
For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous ‘size zero debate’ with an article I wrote to the ‘Evening Standard’ about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
People just assume that if you’re famous, you’re in Hollywood.
I’m as famous as I want to be.
If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
I really feel like it’s a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.
I’m so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it’s working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.
When I first redesigned the ‘Surfer’ magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and – surprise surprise – he hated it.
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now; they think that’s going to sort things out.
My dad was an architect, and he wasn’t a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.
I don’t like the idea of famous people.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.
I’ll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: ‘You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you’re famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.’
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.
Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in ‘E.T.’ My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can’t go anywhere.
I’m in that comfortable niche where I’m not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you’re real famous you need to do that but I’m not that famous so I don’t need that kind of barrier.
I’m coming out with a wine… I’m actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I’m also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
It’s funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.
I’ve got a nice collection of paintings – a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that’s like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It’s almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There’s a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
I sang ‘Nessun Dorma’ twice with Pavarotti, and he told me he’d heard ‘Smoke’ about five or six times, and every time was different. He was so jealous because if he deviated one jot from the traditional interpretation of the famous arias, he’d be crucified. We have the freedom.
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.
I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that’s when the mental illness arrives.
I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
It’s not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I’m going to be famous some day.
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
There’s such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
