Top 70 Famous People Quotes

I don’t know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I’d become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn’t see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

One of my friend calls me ‘lost to showbiz’, but that’s only because I don’t go for a drink as often as he’d like, because I’m always working. I’ve met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz – I have met some, mind.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I’ve been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

There are some famous people, and I’ve met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

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 a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it’s a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it’s supposed to be, you know, that’s supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it’s unbelievable. It’s shocking.

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, ‘You’re Stifler’s mom. Can I take a picture with you?’ But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

I am thrilled to write ‘The Treasure Chest,’ and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I’ve written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.

I’ve been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

One of the top comments I get from people is, ‘Oh my God, you’re like a regular person!’ That’s kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.

If you’re holding your iPhone, and it’s the newest iteration of it, you’re like, ‘Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.’ And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

The best advice that I’ve gotten from Nas is honestly to just be me and to keep staying true to myself. It took me a long time to figure out how to pop, but then, when you get famous, people are kind of like, ‘Oh, well, we don’t want as much of you.’

I’ve never been one for crushing on famous people.

Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it’s to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don’t hear the word ‘no’ enough.

I’ve had some messages from some famous people which have been so unreal that they know who I am. I had support from Paloma Faith, Luke Evans, Stevie van Zandt, Jojo Siwa and Sharon Stone. It was amazing that so many big names had been talking about me.

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.

Mum and Dad started ‘This Morning’ the year I was born, so I was aware from a young age that they were famous. People would come up to us at Sunday lunch and say how much they liked the show.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

Basically I have claimed legal entities for very famous people – they can’t even exist – which are Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Warren Edward Buffett. I own the legal entities they’re operating under. They know this.

I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I’m trying to pick up tips.

I don’t really know a lot of famous people. I’ve met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn’t come up to me and say, ‘Hi Dave!’

It’s nice to have famous people love you.

I’m so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people, where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don’t know them.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

It wasn’t like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people – they knew that that’s what they wanted to do when they were young.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I think in the end, when you’re famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I’ve just become this ambitious, say-whatever’s-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that’s part of my personality, but it’s certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it’s all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal – all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal – like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

Cheryl Cole is one of the few incredibly famous people who still seems to say what they think. I really like that; plus, I do fancy her quite a bit.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That’s my grandma, that’s my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I’d probably tell them even if they weren’t well known.

If you’re famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don’t.

I get intimidated by famous people. When I’m around them and they look at me like I belong, I’m like, ‘Are you nuts? You’re freakin’ famous!’ Whether it’s Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it’s humbling to be in a room with these folks.

I’ve met other famous people, and what blows my mind is that when they get five minutes off, they’re partying with other famous people. I wanna see my boys at home.

I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I’ve never looked up to them in that way.

With ‘Minecraft,’ I’ve started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I’m just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Anything that’s of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they’re fooling people. Dude, you’re not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

I am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it’s true.

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.