c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
— Dwayne Johnson
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
— David R. Brower
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
— Beatrice Wood
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. 
— Marty Meehan
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.
— Dick Cheney
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
— Stanislas Wawrinka
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.
— August Wilson
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
— Orhan Pamuk
We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
— Narendra Modi
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough. 
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
See, winners embrace hard work.
— Lou Holtz
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
— Ogden Nash
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
— Christina Rossetti
It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.
— Nick Carter
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
— Thomas S. Monson
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
— Gary Sinise
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
— Abu Bakr
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
— Walter Gropius
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
— Oscar Wilde
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
— Harold Wilson
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
— Henry J. Kaiser
Labor gives birth to ideas.
— Jim Rohn
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
— Milton Friedman
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
— Ray Bradbury
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
— Richard Nelson Bolles
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
— Samuel Goldwyn
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
— Walter Gilbert
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
— Albert Camus
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
— Gloria Steinem
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
— Robin Williams
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
— Paul Ryan
Work alone is noble.
— Thomas Carlyle
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
— Napoleon Hill
We work to become, not to acquire.
— Elbert Hubbard
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
— Michael Korda
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
— Horace
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
— Jean de la Bruyere
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
— Calvin Coolidge
As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
— Paul Giamatti
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.
— Chris Hadfield
I work to stay alive.
— Bette Davis
I think about my work every minute of the day.
— Jeff Koons
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
— William Feather
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
— Anna Held
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
— Charles Kettering
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
— Rose Kennedy
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
— Peter Ustinov
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
— Lawrence Welk
Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
— Ian MacKaye
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
— James Levine
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
— Mahalia Jackson
I'm working myself to death.
— Alan Ladd
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
— Leigh Steinberg
On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
— Dave Pelzer
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
— Kenny Rogers
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
— Don Shula
The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.
— Seal
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
— Melissa Bean
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
— Donald Norman
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
— Francis Quarles
Management must manage!
— Harold S. Geneen
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
— Harold S. Geneen
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
— A. R. Ammons
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
— Bill Budge
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
— Edgar Winter
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
— Ron Livingston
I always got my work done before playing.
— Edwin Moses
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
— Joseph Murray
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
— Evan Esar
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
— David O. McKay
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
— Charles Duke
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
— Al Capp
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
— Irvin S. Cobb
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
— Frank Murphy
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
— Walter Wager
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
— Richard Nelson Bolles
The world's most famous and popular language is music.
— Psy
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
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
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
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
— Annette Bening
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
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
— Andy Warhol
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
— Taylor Swift
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.
— Ravi Zacharias
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
— Al Pacino
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
— James Marsh
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
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
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
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
— William Penn
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
— Andy Warhol
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
— Emily Dickinson
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
— Henry Kissinger
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
— David Bowie
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
— David Bowie
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
— Saul Leiter
I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around.
— Tiesto
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
— Fred Allen
Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.
— Jenn Proske
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
Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
— Adele
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
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'
— Don Rickles
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
— Andy Warhol
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
— Barry Zito
The scientists I looked up to at the beginning were not Latino. They were famous scientists of many years ago, like Madame Curie. Later, I realized that there were also, but a very few, Latino scientists. There were good ones, but very few, because there wasn't as much a tradition to be a scientist in our culture. But this is changing.
— Mario J. Molina
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
— Bo Burnham
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
— Michael Morpurgo
In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.
— Roberto Cavalli
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
— Annie Leibovitz
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
— Albert Camus
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
— Ja Rule
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
— James Carville
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
— Emily Dickinson
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
— Jesse Owens
Fame is the thirst of youth.
— Lord Byron
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
— J. K. Rowling
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
— Bill O'Reilly
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
— Anderson Cooper
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
— David Hasselhoff
It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
— Amanda Seyfried
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
— Meek Mill
On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir.
— Jill Soloway
My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
— Conor McGregor
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
— Bill O'Reilly
There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
— Bastian Schweinsteiger
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
— Nigel Hamilton
People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
— Mickey Drexler
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
— Bo Burnham
It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.
— David Cassidy
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
— Donatella Versace
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
— Dan Savage
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
— Bill Murray
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
— Ray Charles
I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.
— Sophia Myles
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
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
— Ricky Gervais
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
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
— Lord Byron
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
— Marilyn Monroe
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
— Walt Disney
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
— Van Morrison
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
— Peter O'Toole
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
— C. Wright Mills
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
— Catherine Deneuve
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
— William Hurt
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
— Margot Kidder
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
— Kristen Stewart
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
— Ben Carson
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
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
— Katharine Hepburn
I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
— Dylan Moran
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
— Madonna Ciccone
I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
— Bo Burnham
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
— Zig Ziglar
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.
— Seth Shostak
I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
— Zayn Malik
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.
— Jay-Z
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
— Bette Davis
I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success. 
— Jerry Jeff Walker
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
— Eminem
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
— Ilka Chase
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
— Johnny Knoxville
I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.
— Howard Stern
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
— Justin Theroux
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
— Jarvis Cocker
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
— Dolph Lundgren
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
— Beyonce Knowles
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
— Dan Pfeiffer
The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
— Stephen Hawking
If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.
— Trey Parker
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
— Marianne Williamson
My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.
— Kevin Spacey
I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
— Percy Sledge
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
— David Harewood
Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.
— Meghan Markle
It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.
— Willie Geist
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
— Christopher Hampton
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
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
— Nancy Kerrigan
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
— Russell Brand
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
— Liev Schreiber
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting it is a very odd feeling. 
— Jack Horner
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
— Vivienne Westwood
I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
— Phoebe Philo
Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.
— Jerry Oppenheimer
I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
— Lady Gaga
It's nice to have famous people love you.
— Millie Bobby Brown
People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
— Megan Fox
I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
— Sia
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
— Richard Corliss
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
— Bear Grylls
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.
— Shawn Amos
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
— Anne Hathaway
I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
— Brandon Stanton
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
— Danielle Steel
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 don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
— Bruce Dickinson
There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
— Chris Rock
I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
— Mattie Stepanek
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.
— Shawn Mendes
What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.
— Chris Pavone
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
— Matt Damon
I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
— Meek Mill
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
— Oscar De La Hoya
People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'
— Linda Thompson
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
— George Matthew Adams
If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.
— George Harrison
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
— Bruno Mars
If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
— Josh Homme
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
— Dorothy Hamill
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
— Michael N. Castle
You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
— Dave Chappelle
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
— George Harrison
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
— Meg Cabot
If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
— Michael Schumacher
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
— Junipero Serra
It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.
— Gigi Hadid
Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
— Rupert Grint
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
— Fergie
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
— Jason Lee
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
— Ann Brashares
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
— George Bernard Shaw
People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
— Brian Johnson
Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
— Charles B. Rangel
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
— Charles Barkley
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
— Laura Linney
It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
— Carmelo Anthony
I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
— Wale
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
— Jose Marti
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
— Hedy Lamarr
When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
— Wayne Rooney
I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
— John Cusack
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
— Gloria Estefan
I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.
— George Lucas
Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
— Anton du Beke
I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
— Jay-Z
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
— Jay-Z
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
— Michael Korda
I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
— Sia
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
— Sia
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
— Michael Caine
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
— Frank Black
There is a famous saying: 'It's hard to be a Jew.' It's also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.
— Ariel Sharon
Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.
— Frank Ocean
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
— Eric Clapton
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
— Wale
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
— Yves Saint Laurent
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
— Duke Ellington
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name. 
— Emily Dickinson
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
— Fran Lebowitz
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
— Jerry Lewis
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
— Lillian Hellman
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
— Princess Margaret
I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.
— Anna Kournikova
I want to be famous everywhere.
— Luciano Pavarotti
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
— Matt Damon
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
— Aaron Carter
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
— Eddie Van Halen
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
— Megan Fox
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
— Lee Ryan
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
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
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
— Gwen Stefani
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
— Paul Lynde
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
— Panayiotis Zavos
Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.
— Jude Law
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
— Lady Gaga
There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
— Kim Kardashian
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
— Tom Felton
I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
— Nikki Cox
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
— James Purefoy
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
— Jenna Fischer
I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.
— Rebecca Black
My buildings are more famous than me.
— Jean Nouvel
You don't become a chef to become famous.
— Eric Ripert
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
— Donna Leon
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?
— David Icke
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
— Jairam Ramesh