c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.
— Michael Eric Dyson
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?
— Terry Pratchett
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.
— Winona Ryder
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
— Joan Collins
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
— F. Sionil Jose
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
— Dominick Dunne
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
— Emily Robison
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
— Robert Dallek
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
— John Carroll Lynch
I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable.
— Stephen Colbert
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
— Stephen Colbert
There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
— Sam Altman
I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.
— Chelsea Handler
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
— Geoff Dyer
When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
— Nadia Comaneci
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
— Irvine Welsh
If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.
— Justin Theroux
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
— Norman Davies
The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.
— Armaan Malik
I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it. 
— John Hurt
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
— Alanis Morissette
I'm not famous I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. 
— Anton Corbijn
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
— Cameron Russell
Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.
— Blake Lively
The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.
— Jamie Farr
Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
— Frank Ocean
I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.
— Kate Winslet
Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
— Kate Winslet
I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
— Marilyn Manson
I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
— Daniel Radcliffe
By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.
— Brad Paisley
I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.
— George Clooney
No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
— Bill Goldberg
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.
— Sharon Stone
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
— Patty Jenkins
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
The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
— Jesse Eisenberg
I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.
— Jane Goodall
Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.
— Shemar Moore
I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.
— AJ Lee
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
— Elizabeth Hurley
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
— Marilyn Monroe
Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
— Dolly Parton
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
— Salman Rushdie
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
— Douglas Coupland
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
— Lady Gaga
Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
— Lady Gaga
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
— Jeff Bridges
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
— Jeff Bridges
I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
— Kate Winslet
I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
— Kate Winslet
Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
— Yoko Ono
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'
— Tyra Banks
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
— Gore Vidal
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
— Penn Jillette
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.
— Howard Jacobson
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
— Simon Sinek
Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
— Martin Freeman
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
— Ian Mckellen
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
— Ian Mckellen
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
— Ian Mckellen
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
— J. K. Rowling
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
— Orlando Bloom
There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
— Daniel Radcliffe
It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
— Alanis Morissette
I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
— Alanis Morissette
Only traumatised people want to be famous.
— Alanis Morissette
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
— Jo Brand
I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.'
— Rob Lowe
One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
— Rob Lowe
There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.
— Andie MacDowell
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
— Ambrose Bierce
If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
— Zooey Deschanel
I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.
— Megan Fox
I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.
— Pierce Brosnan
I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.
— Brad Paisley
I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.
— Brad Paisley
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
— Matthew Desmond
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
— Jennifer Aniston
When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.
— Jill Scott
Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
— Denis Leary
I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.
— Denis Leary
The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
— Jimmy Iovine
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.
— Stephen Kinzer
I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
— Johnny Depp
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
— Sia
I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
— Sia
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
— Sia
I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
— Sia
I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
— Sia
Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.
— Robert Gottlieb
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
— Robert Gottlieb
I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.
— Peter Jackson
'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.
— Peter Jackson
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
— Adam McKay
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
— Adam McKay
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.
— Mike Birbiglia
Vegas is famous for a lot of things, and bad marriages are one of them. Margo and I are proof that you can make this work. It just takes a little effort.
— Ron White
If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.
— Ron White
I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
— Ron White
I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.
— Ron White
When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.
— George A. Romero
You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
— Ruth Rendell
'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
— Elvis Mitchell
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
— Edmund Burke
I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.
— George Clooney
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
— George Clooney
If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
— George Clooney
I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.
— George Clooney
To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
— Evangeline Lilly
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
— Emma Watson
I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.
— William Godwin
A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
— Andrea Bocelli
Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.
— Chuck Norris
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous. 
— Ellen DeGeneres
Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
— Kate Moss
The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
— Kate Moss
You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.
— Hozier
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
— Carrie Fisher
You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.
— Carrie Fisher
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
— Frank Abagnale
Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.
— Michael Keaton
It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.
— Michael Keaton
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
I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
— Bill Goldberg
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.
— Robin Wright
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
— Bono
I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.
— John Malkovich
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
— Alan Alda
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?
— Alan Alda
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
— Alan Alda
I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.
— Judy Blume
My hair was famous before I was.
— Christopher Walken
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away. 
— Carol Burnett
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
— Carol Burnett
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
— Ang Lee
I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
— Hugh Jackman
The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
— Louis C. K.
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.
— Kevin Bacon
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
— Kevin Bacon
My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.
— Kevin Bacon
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.
— Kevin Bacon
One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.
— Kevin Bacon
I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.
— Kevin Bacon
I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.
— Simon Cowell
I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.
— Tom Brokaw
I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
— T. J. Miller
Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'
— Bob Newhart
Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to - Richard Nixon!
— Michael Korda
The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.
— Michael Korda
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
— Michael Korda
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
— Michael Korda
See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
— Matthew McConaughey
What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.
— Blake Shelton
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
— Morrissey
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
There is this power that comes with being famous.
— Rod Stewart
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
— Michael Douglas
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
— Juliette Lewis
When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?
— Juliette Lewis
I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.
— Juliette Lewis
I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
— Solange Knowles
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
— Walter Cronkite
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
— Walter Cronkite
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.
— Madonna Ciccone
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
— Orson Welles
I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.
— John Hurt
Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.
— Melissa McCarthy
I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.
— Ansel Elgort
You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
— Ansel Elgort
My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!'
— Nikki Reed
No one teaches you how to be a famous person no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own. 
— Maisie Williams
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
— Maisie Williams
You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
— Maisie Williams
I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
— Johnny Mathis
I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.
— Sharon Stone
This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.
— Tom Ford
When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.
— Alexandra Daddario
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
— Seamus Heaney
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
— Edmund White
I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.
— Murray Rothbard
The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
— Mads Mikkelsen
There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
— Walt Mossberg
I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
— Jenny Lewis
There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
— Rashida Jones
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
I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.
— Roseanne Barr
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
— Debbie Reynolds
I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.
— Janet Jackson
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
— Anthony Hopkins
Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.
— Jennifer Coolidge
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
— Justin Timberlake
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
— Zadie Smith
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
— Natalie Cole
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
— Annette Bening
I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.
— Chris Martin
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.
— Andrew Breitbart
People enjoy making fun of people who are famous they love putting people down. 
— Lee Daniels
If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.
— Rebecca Hall
I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.
— Britney Spears
Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.
— Gordon Brown
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
— Rufus Wainwright
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.
— Louis Theroux
I've always been quite famous for my nose.
— Darcey Bussell
And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
— Tom Felton
It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.
— Amy Jackson
The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.
— Meghan Daum
Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
— Meghan Daum
To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.
— Zac Brown
I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
— Trisha Yearwood
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
— Barbra Streisand
It was never in my mind to be famous.
— Francois Nars
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
— Isaac Hanson
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
— Jesse Eisenberg
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.
— Jesse Eisenberg
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
— Melvyn Bragg
When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.
— Andra Day
I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
— Jenny Slate
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
— Michael Dirda
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
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.
— Kimbal Musk
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.
— Siri Hustvedt
I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
— Kristen Stewart
Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
— Julie Burchill
It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
— Mike Posner
I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.
— Mike Posner
I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
— Mike Posner
You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.
— David Cassidy
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.
— David Cassidy
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
— Chevy Chase
I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.
— John Mayer
I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. 
— Robert Smith
Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now.
— Katie Taylor
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
— Jodie Foster
It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!
— Kevin Plank
Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
— Martin Jacques
In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.
— Lizzie Armitstead
It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
— Evel Knievel
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
— Evel Knievel
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.
— Julia Roberts
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
— Noel Gallagher
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
— Noel Gallagher
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
— Maeve Binchy
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
— Lynn Coady
You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.
— Victoria Pendleton
I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous.
— Chrissy Teigen
What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.
— Peter Falk
My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
— Natalie Massenet
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
— Alice Waters
Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.
— Dennis Quaid
To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
— Diablo Cody
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
— Diablo Cody
I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
— Rupert Friend
This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.
— John C. Reilly
I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
— Rachel Nichols
It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.
— Stella McCartney