Quotes about Famous

“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”

“Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.”

“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.”

“If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.”

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”

“I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.”

“When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.”

“Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.”

“If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.”

“Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.”

“Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?”

“Extrinsic motivations are like, 'I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.'... Even missionary ones like, 'I wanna change the world with this idea.'... That's an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you're going to be like, oh why am I doing this?”

“People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.”

“It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.”

“Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.”

“I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.”

“The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.”

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

“I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.”

“Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.”

“It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.”