Top famous Quotes Collection

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Image of Edward Furlong
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
- Edward Furlong
Collection: Famous
Image of Catherine Keener
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
- Catherine Keener
Collection: Famous
Image of Dirk Benedict
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
- Dirk Benedict
Collection: Famous
Image of Edgar Winter
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
- Edgar Winter
Collection: Famous
Image of Henry Flynt
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Famous
Image of Dylan Moran
I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
- Dylan Moran
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Image of Thomas Haden Church
But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
- Thomas Haden Church
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Image of Tony Levin
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.
- Tony Levin
Collection: Famous
Image of Kelsey Grammer
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
- Kelsey Grammer
Collection: Famous
Image of Martin Yan
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
- Martin Yan
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Image of Sally Kirkland
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
- Sally Kirkland
Collection: Famous
Image of Jim Capaldi
They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
- Jim Capaldi
Collection: Famous
Image of Anita Ekberg
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
- Anita Ekberg
Collection: Famous
Image of Paula Danziger
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
- Paula Danziger
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Image of Izabella Scorupco
I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
- Izabella Scorupco
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Image of James D'arcy
I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
- James D'arcy
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Image of Jerry Jeff Walker
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
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Image of Michael N. Castle
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
- Michael N. Castle
Collection: Famous
Image of Nikki Cox
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
- Nikki Cox
Collection: Famous
Image of Julia Sweeney
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
- Julia Sweeney
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Image of Richard Russo
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
- Richard Russo
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Image of Ann Wilson
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
- Ann Wilson
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Image of Nick Clooney
One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.
- Nick Clooney
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Image of Rachel Griffiths
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
- Rachel Griffiths
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Image of Utada Hikaru
I can never really enjoy being famous.
- Utada Hikaru
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Image of Jeremy London
I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.
- Jeremy London
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Image of Louie Anderson
I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.
- Louie Anderson
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Image of Casey Kasem
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
- Casey Kasem
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Image of Saffron Burrows
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
- Saffron Burrows
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Image of Tracey Ullman
I'm as famous as I want to be.
- Tracey Ullman
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Image of Gwen Stefani
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
- Gwen Stefani
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Image of Marilu Henner
You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.
- Marilu Henner
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Image of Pat Brown
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
- Pat Brown
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Image of Jeremy Northam
I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
- Jeremy Northam
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Image of Lew Wasserman
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
- Lew Wasserman
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Image of Damon Wayans
I never thought about being famous.
- Damon Wayans
Collection: Famous
Image of Moses Mendelssohn
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
- Moses Mendelssohn
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Image of Paul Lynde
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
- Paul Lynde
Collection: Famous
Image of Charlotte Church
They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.
- Charlotte Church
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Image of Charles Williams
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
- Charles Williams
Collection: Famous
Image of Bobby Thomson
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
- Bobby Thomson
Collection: Famous
Image of Helena Bonham Carter
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
- Helena Bonham Carter
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Image of Tony Curtis
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
- Tony Curtis
Collection: Famous
Image of Geri Halliwell
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
- Geri Halliwell
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Image of Ian Hart
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
- Ian Hart
Collection: Famous
Image of Ian Hart
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.
- Ian Hart
Collection: Famous
Image of Richard Ernst
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
- Richard Ernst
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Image of Arthur Golden
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
- Arthur Golden
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Image of Anthony Holden
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.
- Anthony Holden
Collection: Famous
Image of Gavin DeGraw
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
- Gavin DeGraw
Collection: Famous