I don’t need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.
The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it’s very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don’t want to share.
This business of fame – when people ask me what it was like growing up in this famous family, I say, ‘When you take it seriously you’re in a lot of trouble.’
I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn’t know where I fit in.
The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.
The good thing about L.A. is that there’s always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.
I’ve been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, ‘What’s your advice?’ first I say, ‘Be born the son of a famous director. It’s invaluable.’
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
It’s not that I don’t want to become famous or that I’m obsessed by my work as an actress, but it’s all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.
Jack Palance was my distant uncle – that’s the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous ‘heavy’ in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.
I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Economists agree about economics – and that’s a science – and they disagree about economic policy because that’s a value judgment… I’ve had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.
I’m kinda famous for my barbecues – I’m always hosting parties.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
I remember Michael saying, ‘Rich and famous? It’s much better to be just rich’. I didn’t quite get it to begin with. But he’s right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you’ve no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
I’ve always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
I am a die hard fan of Lucknow food, so whenever I am in city I make sure to have the famous kebabs.
I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.
And I want to be able to – you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
I’ve never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
I wanted to go hide. I wasn’t looking to be more famous, I’m famous enough.
I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
I don’t think it’s anything you ever get used to… for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word ‘famous’ or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable… if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that’s Hollywood.
I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot ‘Old Boy,’ which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He’s really a true master.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else… But that was my goal.
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
I’ve never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don’t give a damn. And everyone’s very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can’t actually get my head round it.
I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn’t know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.
It’s more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don’t have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn’t handle it.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I’m famous.
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn’t.
It’s every teenager’s dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.
It’s not about being super famous. My first goal was to do what I’m passionate about – dance, hip hop, and R&B – but I also wanted to support my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do meaningful.
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed.
So I’m a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They’re living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
