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Image of Pauly Shore
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
- Pauly Shore
Collection: Famous
Image of Christopher Plummer
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
- Christopher Plummer
Collection: Famous
Image of Cat Deeley
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
- Cat Deeley
Collection: Famous
Image of Samantha Mumba
All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
- Samantha Mumba
Collection: Famous
Image of Ronald Harwood
I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.
- Ronald Harwood
Collection: Famous
Image of David Zucker
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!'
- David Zucker
Collection: Famous
Image of Kim Weston
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
- Kim Weston
Collection: Famous
Image of Kim Weston
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
- Kim Weston
Collection: Famous
Image of Marion Jones
It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
- Marion Jones
Collection: Famous
Image of Winona Ryder
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
- Winona Ryder
Collection: Famous
Image of Psy
The world's most famous and popular language is music.
- Psy
Collection: Famous
Image of Tom Bodett
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.
- Tom Bodett
Collection: Famous
Image of Jay-Z
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
- Jay-Z
Collection: Famous
Image of Kevin Hart
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
- Kevin Hart
Collection: Famous
Image of Taylor Swift
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
- Taylor Swift
Collection: Famous
Image of Eddie Van Halen
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
- Eddie Van Halen
Collection: Famous
Image of Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.
- Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Collection: Famous
Image of Dave Grohl
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Famous
Image of Tony Hawk
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
- Tony Hawk
Collection: Famous
Image of Annette Bening
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
- Annette Bening
Collection: Famous
Image of Shirley Temple
One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'
- Shirley Temple
Collection: Famous
Image of Bob Seger
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
- Bob Seger
Collection: Famous
Image of Anastasia Soare
Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
- Anastasia Soare
Collection: Famous
Image of Muhammad Ali
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
- Muhammad Ali
Collection: Famous
Image of Marco Rubio
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
- Marco Rubio
Collection: Famous
Image of Eric Ries
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.
- Eric Ries
Collection: Famous
Image of J.I.D
I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.
- J.I.D
Collection: Famous
Image of Yves Saint Laurent
I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.'
- Yves Saint Laurent
Collection: Famous
Image of Adam Levine
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
- Adam Levine
Collection: Famous
Image of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Collection: Famous
Image of Kevin Costner
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
- Kevin Costner
Collection: Famous
Image of Eric Davis
I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
- Eric Davis
Collection: Famous
Image of O. J. Simpson
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
- O. J. Simpson
Collection: Famous
Image of Dave Chappelle
You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
- Dave Chappelle
Collection: Famous
Image of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Collection: Famous
Image of Michael Morpurgo
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
- Michael Morpurgo
Collection: Famous
Image of Sean Lennon
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
- Sean Lennon
Collection: Famous
Image of Viola Davis
When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Famous
Image of Maisie Williams
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
- Maisie Williams
Collection: Famous
Image of Saul Leiter
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
- Saul Leiter
Collection: Famous
Image of John C. Maxwell
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Famous
Image of Albert Camus
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Famous
Image of Michael Specter
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.
- Michael Specter
Collection: Famous
Image of Robin Williams
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
- Robin Williams
Collection: Famous
Image of Neil Peart
Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.
- Neil Peart
Collection: Famous
Image of Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Robert Benchley
Collection: Famous
Image of David Lee Roth
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
- David Lee Roth
Collection: Famous
Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Collection: Famous
Image of Seth Lloyd
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
- Seth Lloyd
Collection: Famous