642 private quotes tagged famous

“The time is always right to do what is right.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.”— Adam Sandler

“There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.”— Bill Murray

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”— John F. Kennedy

“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.”— Will Cuppy

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

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”— David Oyelowo

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”— George Bernard Shaw

“I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.”— Rod Stewart

“My hair was famous before I was.”— Christopher Walken

“You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.”— Zakk Wylde

“Andy Warhol made fame more famous.”— Fran Lebowitz

“I was famous from birth.”— Peter Fonda

“Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.”— John Cusack

“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”— Voltaire

“Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.”— Ambrose Bierce

“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”— Albert Camus

“Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.”— Seth Lloyd

“First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.”— Michelle Pfeiffer

“I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.”— Rashida Jones

“Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.”— Jason Lee

“Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.”— Rebecca Hall

“I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.”— Kevin Pietersen

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”— Jet Li