Famous Quotes

I don't feel famous.

Uma Thurman

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Kim Kardashian

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Juliette Lewis

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Donna Leon

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.

Kurt Masur

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Jenny Slate

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Christopher Plummer

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

David McCallum

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Suzanne Farrell

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

George Bernard Shaw

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

Ray Comfort

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Rainn Wilson

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

Rosie O'Donnell

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

Christopher Parker

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

Eric Heiden