c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
— Van Morrison
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
— Van Morrison
I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
— Steve Coogan
Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.
— Steve Coogan
Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
— Cyndi Lauper
Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
— Eileen Myles
The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.
— Graham Norton
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
— Fergie
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
— Larry Hagman
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
— Julie Walters
I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
— Julie Walters
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
— Martin Filler
I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
— Emma Thompson
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
— Ray Comfort
I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
— Debra Winger
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
— Donnie Yen
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
— David Walliams
I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.
— David Walliams
Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.
— Michael Palin
Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
— Robert Rodriguez
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
— Karan Mahajan
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
— Meir Soloveichik
I don't want to be famous for being famous.
— Kelli O'Hara
Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.
— George Lois
My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
— Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
— Bob Saget
Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.
— Bob Saget
I'm as famous as I want to be.
— Tracey Ullman
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
— Richard Russo
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
— Sam Worthington
I never wanted to be famous.
— Judah Friedlander
I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.
— Judah Friedlander
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.
— Paul Di Filippo
Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
— Courtney Love
I earned my famous name.
— Brian Wilson
I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
— Eric Davis
One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'
— Shirley Temple
There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste.
— John Quelch
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
— Danielle Steel
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
— Danielle Steel
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
— Danielle Steel
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
— Kylie Minogue
I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.
— Ethan Hawke
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
— Ethan Hawke
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. 
— Alexander McCall Smith
We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
— Lorde
I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.
— Kevin Pietersen
It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
— Emily Blunt
Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?
— Tom Graves
My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.
— Dawn French
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
— Mark Helprin
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.
— Mark Helprin
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
— Kinky Friedman
When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
— Katie Price
I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.
— Terry Crews
It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!
— Terry Crews
My famous line is 'Product is king.'
— Joy Mangano
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
— Jet Li
Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.
— Lisa Lutz
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
— Wesley Snipes
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
— Casey Kasem
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
— Zach Anner
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
— Roberto Cavalli
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
— Roberto Cavalli
When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.
— David Furnish
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
— Robert Caro
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
— Stephen Rodrick
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
— Edmund Morgan
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
— Alexander Chee
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
— Gerard Butler
I literally was famous before I knew my own name.
— Corey Feldman
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
— Corey Feldman
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
— Oliver North
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
— Adam Levine
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
— Taraji P. Henson
I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
— Martin Garrix
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
— Enya
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
— America Ferrera
When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.
— Bipasha Basu
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.
— Ashley Jensen
I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.
— Ashley Jensen
Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.
— Tyga
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
— Lyle Lovett
I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
— Zoe Sugg
I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
— Holly Madison
Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.
— David Carradine
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
— Kat Dennings
I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.
— Anne-Marie Duff
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
— Samantha Morton
'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
— Lou Doillon
I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
— Lou Doillon
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
— Kacey Musgraves
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?
— Bo Burnham
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
— Herschel Walker
I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
— Jo Nesbo
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
— Zakk Wylde
The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.
— Daniel H. Wilson
I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.
— FKA twigs
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
— Kathryn Harrison
One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
— Ken Follett
Once you're famous you can't go back.
— Matthew Morrison
My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.
— Julia Restoin Roitfeld
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
— Robert De Niro
I'm the man that made wrestling famous.
— Hulk Hogan
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.
— Bradley Cooper
I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
— Nicole Scherzinger
The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
— Burgess Owens
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
— Barry Gibb
My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.
— Charlie Cox
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
— Robert Wyatt
Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
— Anna Held
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
— Robert Crumb
I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.
— Stefano Gabbana
I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
— NeNe Leakes
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
— Jay Leno
I don't see myself as a famous person.
— Jess Glynne
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
— Nicholas Sparks
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
— Maureen Dowd
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I don't see myself as famous I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy. 
— Hailey Baldwin
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.
— Russell Peters
I love going to the beach. I like just walking around South Beach, but sometimes, when you're famous, it can be a little difficult.
— Nicky Jam
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
— Don Johnson
Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.
— Lionel Richie
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
— Valentino Rossi
I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.
— Adrienne Bailon
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
— Colin Mochrie
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.
— Rosie O'Donnell
Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.
— Tim Curry
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
— Suzanne Farrell
My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
— Jennifer Ellison
I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.
— Ravi Shankar
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
— Olivia De Havilland
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
— Wynonna Judd
I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.
— Eva Herzigova
Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
— Ryan Giggs
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
— Russell Brand
I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
— David Zucker
Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
— Chris Evert
When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
— Chris Evert
I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
— Izabella Scorupco
I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
— Sinead O'Connor
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
— Agnetha Faltskog
I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.
— Lucky Blue Smith
I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
— Damien Rice
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
— Donna Leon
I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.
— Sarah Hyland
If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
— Danny Bonaduce
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
— Robert South
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
— Jessica Alba
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
— Moon Unit Zappa
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
— Pericles
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
— Nick Carter
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
— Neko Case
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
— Helen Hayes
I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
— Lily Allen
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
— Aidan Quinn
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
— Al Goldstein
My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'
— Sirio Maccioni
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.
— Ricki Lake
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
— Emir Kusturica
Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
— Sherry Stringfield
Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.
— Paul Hogan
I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
— Gareth Bale
I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
— Noomi Rapace
I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous.
— Frank Dillane
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
— Tobey Maguire
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
— Mo Yan
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
— Dido Armstrong
You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.
— Tamar Braxton
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
— Xavi
I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
— Glenn Hughes
I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.
— Aubrey Peeples
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
— Frances Bean Cobain
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
— David Tang
My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
— Ian Ziering
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.
— Ronan Farrow
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
— Cary Grant
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
— Billy Baldwin
I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.
— Madeline Zima
One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.
— Steve James
All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
— Samantha Mumba
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
— Kurtis Blow
I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
— Elisabeth Moss
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
— Erin Cummings
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
— David McCallum
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
— Gad Elmaleh
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
I will either be famous or infamous.
— Otto Dix
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
— Tony Wilson
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
— Jason Lee
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
— Bennett Cerf
If you're famous, you're not free.
— Tadanobu Asano
In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.
— Gina Rinehart
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
— William Scott
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
— Norman O. Brown
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
— Jacqueline Leo
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.
— Sean Harris
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
— Frida Lyngstad
Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.
— Rodger Ward
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
— Meredith Baxter
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
— Luigi Barzini
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
— Paul Biya
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
— Albert Camus
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
— John Muir
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
— Robert Frost
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
— George Santayana
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
— Albert Einstein
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
— Mother Teresa
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
— John Muir
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
— Chantal Sutherland
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
— George Eliot
Nature is the art of God.
— Dante Alighieri
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
— Mattie Stepanek
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
— Albert Einstein
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
— Theodore Roethke
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
— Charles Baudelaire
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
— Theodore Roethke
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
— John Lubbock
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
— Pat Buckley
Colors are the smiles of nature.
— Leigh Hunt
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
— Alexander Hamilton
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
— Alice Walker
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water is the driving force of all nature.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
— Langston Hughes
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
— Hosea Ballou
Autumn's the mellow time.
— William Allingham
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
— John Updike
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
— Jules Renard
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
— Khalil Gibran
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
— Thomas Hood
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
— Henri Matisse
The good man is the friend of all living things.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
— Robert Browning
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
— Anton Chekhov
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
— Edward Abbey
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
— John Muir
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
— Eleonora Duse
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
— E. O. Wilson
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
— Frederick Douglass
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
— Robert Delaunay
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
— Thomas Hobbes
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
— Andrew Bernstein
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
— Louie Schwartzberg
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
— Georges Simenon
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
— Henry Beston
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
— Anne Frank
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
— Alex Trebek
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
— Walt Whitman
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
— Tom Hanks
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
— Voltaire
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
— Hal Boyle
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
— Norman MacCaig
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
— Albert Einstein
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
— Karen Salmansohn
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
— Edward Abbey
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
— Antoni Gaudi
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
— Adam Smith
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
— Gunter Grass
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
— Nikola Tesla
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
— Marilyn Monroe
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
— Garrison Keillor
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
— Walter Scott
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
— Tadao Ando
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
— Chen Shui-bian
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
— Anne Bronte
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
— Margaret Mead
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
— Alfred Austin
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
— John Muir
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
— Antoni Gaudi
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
— Robin Williams