People get very excited about very high elements. That’s why Mount Everest is so important – it’s not the most difficult mountain, but it’s the most famous because it’s the tallest.
My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.
If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.
By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem’s famous, influential and intriguing residents.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they’re famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
I don’t ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after ‘East Is East’ and ‘Bend It.’
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
People like consistency. Whether it’s a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
I walk the streets, take the train, it’s real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: ‘Oh, I’m so famous I can’t go places, because I created this mythology that I’m so famous I can’t go places.’
I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you’re famous… and it’s not. You just buy more stuff.
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.
Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who’s been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.
Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
See, ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you’re being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
I don’t have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I’ve been able to connect with a lot of people.
An actor isn’t someone who is voted in by the people, but just someone who is famous. I don’t think we need to be perfect and take responsibility for our actions, but since there are young people who look at us and follow us, I don’t think we can just say that we have no responsibilities, either.
I am entitled to my privacy. People say, ‘No, you’re not entitled to your privacy because you married a famous person and you have Instagram.’ Well, that’s not really true.
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
In fact, I’d just like to own something. Everyone thinks I’m glamorous, rich and famous but all I’ve got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
My name’s Jennifer Ellison and one day I’m going to be famous!
Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it’s cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
When famous people come up to you it’s a bit weird, but it’s an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
I’m not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie – ‘Casablanca,’ say – and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
I’m right on the edge of getting another movie. It’s between me and a famous person. The studio said they’re thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, ‘That’s great! Because I have one!’
I actually don’t know anyone who wants to be famous for fame’s sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
It’s easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That’s why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
I didn’t think I was a famous singer. I didn’t think I was a star or that I could make the waters part – just that singing was what I was going to do.
I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
It’s interesting because people assume that because I’m famous I know all famous people.
I don’t care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don’t have anyone to look up to. I mean, it’s weird, but if I just hid out and didn’t let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?
I wasn’t a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando – perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
I totally related to Cole Porter’s magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn’t drag them away from a piano.
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn’t actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don’t want it.
