“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”
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“A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.”
“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'”
“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.”
“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
“After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.”
“And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.”
“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.”
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
“If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.”
“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.”
“I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”
“There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.”
“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”
“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
“There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.”
“Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.”
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”
“I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.”
“We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.”
“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”
“I love being famous. It's almost like being white.”