Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Scherzinger

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

Laura Linney

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

Laverne Cox

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

Sharon Jones

I knew I was going to be famous later in life.

Brendan Gleeson

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

Nikki Reed

My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!'

Cher

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Linus Roache

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

Kelly Slater

Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.

George Clooney

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

Willie Geist

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

Tadashi Shoji

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Haywood Nelson

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Bob Seger

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Trey Parker

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

CeeLo Green

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Lionel Richie

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.

Kevin Bacon

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

Kabir Bedi

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

Damien Rice

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

Pericles

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

We practice those last-second plays a lot. Dad's getting kind of famous for them, I guess.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Alberto Korda

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

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.