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Famous Quotes


"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."


"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."


"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."


"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."


"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."


"The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better."


"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."


"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together."


"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."


"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."


"I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous."


"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.""


"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."


"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them."


"Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here."


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


"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."


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


"It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous."


"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."


"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."


"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."


"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."


"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."


"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."


"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."


"There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star."


"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."


"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."


"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."


"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."


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