Quotes about Famous
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I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
It's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dream.' I sit there and think, 'I'm scared - this can go away tomorrow.' My dad always says that I'm a tortured soul because I'm never pleased; I never feel like I deserve what I've achieved.
I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.
What I've found after doing over 200 celebrity readings on 'Hollywood Medium' is that everyone is looking for the same thing, it doesn't matter how rich you are, how poor you are, how famous or not famous, every human being experiences loss and I'm glad the show starts a conversation about that.
Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.
I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.
I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker David Constable. And now these have become the passion of my life.
I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.
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