642 private quotes tagged famous

“I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!” — Lyle Lovett

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“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.” — Joel McHale

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“I actually don't feel famous.” — Anwar Robinson

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“Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.” — Christopher Plummer

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“I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.” — Kathleen Robertson

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“I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.” — Nicole Sullivan

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“I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.” — Ann Brashares

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“I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.” — Helen Slater

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“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.” — Pauly Shore

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“If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.” — Shelley Long

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“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.” — Debbie Macomber

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“King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.” — Jamie Muir

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“When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.” — Cass Elliot

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“Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.” — Pola Negri

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“Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.” — Dan Fogler

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“Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.” — Scott Patterson

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“I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.” — Laura Kightlinger

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“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.” — Terry O'Quinn

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“I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.” — Lee Ryan

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“When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.” — Jason Lee

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“I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.” — Jason Lee

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“I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.” — Joey McIntyre

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“It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.” — Joey McIntyre

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“What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.” — Narada Michael Walden

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“It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.” — Gary Barlow

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