Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim Curry

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

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.

Imelda Staunton

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

Terry Wogan

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

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.

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.

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.

Rupert Grint

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Orlando Bloom

You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

Patty Loveless

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

Harriet Walter

Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

Zoe Sugg

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

The precious metals markets have all the ingredients necessary to repeat the performance they were once famous for.

Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Paul Hogan

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

Patrick Macnee

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

Peter Jackson

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

Peter Jackson

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

Olly Murs

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

Nikki Reed

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