The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.
I would love to work into my eighties. I don’t want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
There’s a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, ‘Mia san mia.’ Literally, it is, ‘We are we,’ but it means, ‘We are who we are.’ That’s not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Some of the things I’ve seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive – I’ve seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things… like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
My music’s gotten much more famous than me.
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues’ gallery. Often times they’re as famous – if not more infamous – than our heroes.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don’t know what it’s like.
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
I think I’ll always be famous. I just hope I don’t become infamous.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ’cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.
Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado’s famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.
I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous.
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.
Before I started my modeling career at 20, I used to replay fashion show videos on-line and study how famous models walk and pose on runways.
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.
You don’t have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I’d like more people to know that it’s there. Women’s achievements still aren’t recognised enough in many areas.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
I’m the man that made wrestling famous.
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable… The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn’t have the same rights as other kids.
I’d change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That’s just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you’re the pedestal they built for you.
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
It’s always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, ‘You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.’ They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.
I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
They don’t really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don’t realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I’m just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don’t fall into those traps.
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
It’s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren’t the purpose of all this. No actor’s going to say, ‘I don’t want to be famous.’ But the main purpose for doing what I’m doing is the passion in the work.
I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.
It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
I was famous from birth.
I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
I have noticed that when a girl or guy falls in love, and they call their girlfriend or boyfriend with cute names, then ‘Honey Bunny’ is one of the most famous ones, so we picked that up and created a song.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
All I say is that I don’t go out with famous men.
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It’s all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.