Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ansel Elgort

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

Vincent Schiavelli

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

Maria Semple

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

Kelly Ryan

Mozart wrote some of the most famous operas of all time; Mozart wrote some of the most famous Masses of all time, strong quartets, symphonies.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Jay Leno

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

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.

I don't think she understood the worldwide demand. I don't think she realized how famous she was.

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.

Edmund Hillary

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

I didn't really watch 'Dallas,' so I wasn't as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were 'cause he's, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.

Sarah Hyland

I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.

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.

Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Linda Ronstadt

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Liz Smith

I was introduced to Sean Penn by a very famous Hollywood agent. He said, 'Sean, I'd like you to meet Liz Smith.' And Sean Penn looked at me, turned, ran down the hall and went -- left the building.

John Malkovich

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.