642 private quotes tagged famous

“I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.”— Jeremy Renner

“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”— Jose Marti

“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”— Susan Sontag

“I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.”— Gary Oldman

“You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.”— Jay Leno

“Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.”— Jean-Michel Basquiat

“I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.”— Christian Bale

“I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'”— Jason Reitman

“I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'”— Jason Reitman

“I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'”— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.”— Erica Jong

“Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.”— Brett Favre

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”— Norman Cousins

“It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.”— Diane Kruger

“I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.”— Diane Kruger

“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”— Maureen Dowd

“I'm as famous as I want to be.”— Tracey Ullman

“The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.”— Kurtis Blow

“I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.”— Haile Gebrselassie

“I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'”— Kevin Costner

“Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.”— Dirk Benedict

“I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.”— Dave Chappelle

“As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.”— Gwen Stefani

“There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.”— Tim Roth

“I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.”— Nicky Hilton