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Famous Quotes


"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."


"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right."


"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."


"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective."


"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."


"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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