Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

William Shakespeare

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

Karl Schroeder

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

Kate McKinnon

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

Alexandre Dumas

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Maria Semple

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

Shirley MacLaine

I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or something, because she's famous herself, and what would I do about the poop? And would they make me mad? Because the whole point is, they want to make you mad, and then they get a good picture.

Jay Ryan

I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Kevin Bacon

There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.

Basically. The rich and famous only need apply.

James McCartney

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Maisie Williams

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Andy Borowitz

Get over yourselves with the coffee. You know, we all have it. It's like being famous for mustard or gum.

Carrie Coon

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.

Tim O'Brien

I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

T-Pain

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

Ruth Negga

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Charlotte McKinney

I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'

Robert Silverberg

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Anna Kournikova

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous. I could have any man in the world

Fidel Castro

I am going to tell you what I think about this famous commission.

FKA twigs

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

Bryan Greenberg

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Emily Blunt

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

Ellen Pompeo

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.

Blake Shelton

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

Bert Campaneris

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Bo Burnham

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

Alex Ebert

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

Charlotte Church

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.