642 private quotes tagged famous

“I became famous almost before I had a craft.” — Farrah Fawcett

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“I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.” — Ed Westwick

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“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.” — James Ellroy

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“The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.” — Julian Clary

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“They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.” — Jim Capaldi

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“I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.” — Jeremy London

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“If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.” — Danny Bonaduce

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“I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.” — Izabella Scorupco

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“I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.” — Donna Leon

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“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.” — Donna Leon

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“And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.” — Donna Leon

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“It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.” — Bruno Tonioli

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“I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.” — Mickey Gilley

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“Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.” — David Carradine

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“I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.” — Bruce Oldfield

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“But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.” — Rachel Hunter

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“I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?” — Colin Hay

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“I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.” — Colin Hay

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“I don't like the idea of famous people.” — Kristin Hersh

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“The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.” — Adam Garcia

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“Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.” — Martha Reeves

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“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.” — Penn Jillette

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“We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!” — Alan Vega

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“Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.” — Mickey Spillane

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“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.” — Norman O. Brown

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