642 private quotes tagged famous

“The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.”— Rick Danko

“My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!”— Jennifer Ellison

“I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.”— Jennifer Weiner

“There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.”— Geri Halliwell

“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”— Leigh Hunt

“I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.”— David Friedman

“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!'”— David Zucker

“It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.”— Ron Silver

“A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.”— Michael Bolton

“In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.”— Luciano Pavarotti

“I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.”— Radha Mitchell

“I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.”— Danny Elfman

“These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.”— Barry Manilow

“Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?”— Tom Sizemore

“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.”— Mira Sorvino

“One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.”— Nick Clooney

“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.”— David Gest

“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.”— Ellen Pompeo

“The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.”— Charles Williams

“Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.”— Tia Carrere

“It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.”— Carmelo Anthony

“There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.”— Gabriela Sabatini

“You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.”— Clive Anderson

“Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.”— Lionel Richie

“Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.”— Fran Drescher