Quotes about Famous

“It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.”

“I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.”

“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.”

“My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.”

“I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.”

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

“I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.”

“I still think it's mind-blowing when famous people know who I am.”

“Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.”

“To be famous and broke is hard.”

“Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.”

“I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.”

“It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.”

“I love being famous. It's almost like being white.”

“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”

“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.”

“It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.”

“Being famous for being famous isn't our scene.”

“Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.”

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

“Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.”