Famous Quotes

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Ryan Giggs

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Eric Clapton

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

O. J. Simpson

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

Robert Rodriguez

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Martin Yan

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

Haywood Nelson

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

Victoria Justice

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Robert Crumb

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Ellen DeGeneres

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Ernest Thompson Seton

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

Janet Jackson

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Kim Weston

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

Bear Grylls

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

Ani DiFranco

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

Paz de la Huerta