Quotes about Famous
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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.
I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
I think a famous parent is really different from a famous grandparent. My parents are very successful, but no one knows who they are, and they live a completely grounded, homey life. I'm friends with the Gummer girls, whose mum is Meryl Streep, and that feels from the outside like a different kind of burden.
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
Every city's got a famous rib place or coffeehouse or dessert place.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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