c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since.
— Stella McCartney
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
— Philippe Petit
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74 it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. 
— Philippe Petit
It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.
— Theresa Rebeck
I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.
— Dylan Moran
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
— Karl Pilkington
I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.
— Jill Soloway
Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.
— Bradley Wiggins
Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.
— Chris Rock
I love being famous. It's almost like being white.
— Chris Rock
For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
— Jewel
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
— Jewel
I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
— Randeep Hooda
Everyone wants to be famous so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it. 
— Randeep Hooda
Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.
— Issey Miyake
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
— Helena Bonham Carter
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
— Pankaj Mishra
To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
— Evan Osnos
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
— Beth Ditto
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
— Beth Ditto
I don't really consider myself to be famous.
— Victoria Justice
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
— Shania Twain
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
— Haruki Murakami
I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
— Leona Lewis
Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.
— Leona Lewis
The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.
— Lily James
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
— Rachel Sklar
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
— John le Carre
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
— Marilyn vos Savant
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
— Tom Wolfe
The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
— David Beckham
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
— Sarah McLachlan
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
— Christian Bale
I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
— Kendra Wilkinson
I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.
— Kendra Wilkinson
The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
— Rafael Nadal
We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
— Bernard Sumner
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
— Stephen Colbert
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
— Monica Crowley
Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I'm watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people.
— Tig Notaro
Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.
— Tig Notaro
I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.
— Ethan Canin
I never pursued being 'famous.'
— Francesca Annis
Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
— Francesca Annis
Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.
— Bill O'Reilly
I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.
— Iyanla Vanzant
I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
— Gary Oldman
The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
— Peyton Manning
With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.
— Erin O'Connor
One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.
— Maz Jobrani
I am not famous at all.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.
— Elaine Stritch
It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' is one of my favourite films.
— Will Poulter
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
— Harrison Ford
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
— Anton du Beke
'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.
— Anton du Beke
Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor.
— Anton du Beke
I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.
— Tim O'Brien
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
— Danica McKellar
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
— Jim Lee
The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
— Shawn Amos
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
— Shawn Amos
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
— Shawn Amos
On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
— Robbie Williams
I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.
— Robbie Williams
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
— Adele
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
— Usain Bolt
I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.
— Mary Lambert
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
— Ruth Negga
I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.
— Ruth Negga
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
— Lauren Bacall
I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.
— William Hurt
It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
— D. B. Sweeney
I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
— Bonnie Hunt
The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
— Brett Favre
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
— Juliette Binoche
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
— Juliette Binoche
I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.
— Christian Slater
A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
— Diplo
Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
— Diplo
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
— Jason Alexander
My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.
— J. D. Vance
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
— Chuck Berry
I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.
— Lupita Nyong'o
I got the famous Oprah hug!
— Taylor Lautner
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
— Dee Dee Myers
There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
— Miranda Otto
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.
— David Oyelowo
People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America.
— David Chang
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
— Carlene Carter
I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'
— Jason Reitman
I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.
— Loni Love
I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
— Diane Kruger
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
— Jason Reitman
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
— Erica Jong
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
— Erica Jong
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
— Cat Stevens
I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.
— Anne Hathaway
I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.
— Mindy Kaling
I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.
— Matthew Perry
If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
— Matthew Perry
I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
— Lenny Abrahamson
On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.
— Ahmed Zewail
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
— George Will
In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end, but she was, like, a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.
— Rebel Wilson
Celebrity damages private life.
— Tim Berners-Lee
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
— Idris Elba
As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.
— Guy Kawasaki
I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
— Joe Rogan
I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
— Joe Rogan
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
— Shirley MacLaine
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
— Liz Phair
io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.
— Annalee Newitz
I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.
— Paul Giamatti
Nobody sane wants just to be famous.
— Jamie Dornan
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
— Bo Bennett
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
— Bo Bennett
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
— Val Kilmer
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
— Jane Smiley
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
— Mickey Rourke
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
— Caitlin Moran
I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
— Caitlin Moran
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
— Domhnall Gleeson
I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.
— Rick Riordan
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
— Ani DiFranco
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
— Claire Denis
I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's doing when you're growing up. She also taught me the basics: Make sure you use a good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and then use a detangler to comb through your hair. And don't overdo the heat styling.
— Jillian Hervey
I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.
— Jillian Hervey
My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.
— Anderson Cooper
I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.
— Charlotte Dujardin
That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.
— Charlotte Dujardin
I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.
— Sarah Gadon
I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.
— Martin Parr
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
— Paul Samuelson
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
— James Thurber
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
— Steve Wozniak
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
— Alison Gopnik
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
— Claire Tomalin
I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
— Nate Berkus
I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
— Nate Berkus
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
— Chris Christie
I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
— CeeLo Green
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
— CeeLo Green
Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
— CeeLo Green
Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
— Rachel Weisz
I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.'
— Kumail Nanjiani
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
— Harold Prince
It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
— Rivers Cuomo
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
— Romola Garai
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
— James Gleick
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
— Shirley Manson
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
— Christopher Lee
My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.
— Christopher Lee
That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
— Garry Shandling
If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
— Gwen Stefani
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
— John Travolta
I mean I was famous for nothing.
— Rick Springfield
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
— Haile Gebrselassie
A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.
— Terry Wogan
There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.
— Terry Wogan
I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'
— Nick Kroll
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
— Susan Sontag
My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
— Maria Semple
When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.
— Trinny Woodall
I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'
— Brittany Snow
I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.
— James Blunt
I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
— Dane Cook
I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.
— Marcia Clark
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
— Pharrell Williams
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
— Donald Hall
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
— Donald Hall
Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.
— Neil Peart
After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
— Kin Hubbard
It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.
— Anthony Joshua
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
— Hedy Lamarr
It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
— Bonnie Tyler
I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.
— Bonnie Tyler
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
— Kevin Costner
I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous. 
— Katherine Jenkins
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
— Eddie Van Halen
I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
— Dave Chappelle
I love being famous - it's phenomenal.
— Dave Chappelle
Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.
— Dave Chappelle
I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.
— Wale
I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.
— Russell Crowe
'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view. 
— Russell Crowe
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
— Al Jourgensen
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
— Ed Sheeran
I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
— Olly Murs
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
— James Wolcott
Vine is where 'Don't' started popping off. A lot of famous Viners used the song, and that was crazy because I had never been a part of something like that. I drank champagne for the first time when it got 100,000 plays.
— Bryson Tiller
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
— Benigno Aquino III
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
— Gregory Benford
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, and my mom would buy the industrial-size Famous Amos cookies or Chips Ahoy when I was lucky. And I would sit in front of the TV set with a glass of milk... and I would dump cookies in there, smash them with my spoon, and eat cookies and milk with a spoon watching 'The Dukes of Hazzard.'
— Johnny Iuzzini
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
— Bill Nighy
I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. 
— Bill Nighy
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
— Marina and the Diamonds
I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.
— Marina and the Diamonds
The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
— Larry King
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.
— Robyn Davidson
I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
— Hanna Rosin
Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
— Big Sean
There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
— Jarvis Cocker
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.
— Jarvis Cocker
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
— Jarvis Cocker
I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.
— Cher
I've been famous my entire life I don't know any other way. 
— Cher
There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.
— Bill Murray
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
— Charlie Kaufman
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
— Martha Plimpton
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
— Jack Kerouac
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
— Seth Rogen
I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.
— Seth Rogen
The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
— Seth Rogen
I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.
— Linda Ronstadt
I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.
— Linda Ronstadt
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
— Sting
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
— Steve Vai
When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.
— Jamie Foxx
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
— Tom Sizemore
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
— Cynthia Nixon
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
— Jane Pauley
I want to become more famous, even more famous.
— Yayoi Kusama
I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
— Cameron Dallas
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
— Alexander Payne
Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
— Gary Numan
Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
— Zara Larsson
It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.
— Curtis Jackson
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
— Jennifer Hudson
Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
— Carnie Wilson
My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.
— Dario Argento
I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.
— Tom Scholz
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
— Yo-Yo Ma
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
— Bob Seger
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
— Moliere
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
— Rainn Wilson
I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.
— Ashley Madekwe
A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.
— Alfie Allen
I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
— Matt Damon
I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.
— Matt Damon
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
— A. R. Rahman
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
— Arthur Smith
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
— Nick Clegg
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
— Margaret Heffernan
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
— Cat Deeley
I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
— Jeremy Renner
I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
— Vanessa Paradis
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
— Vanessa Paradis
Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.
— Nick Cannon
I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
— Zach Galifianakis
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.
— Mario Testino
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
— Geri Halliwell
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
— Robert Morgan
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
— Dana Carvey
Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.
— John Tesh
I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
— Manolo Blahnik
It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.
— Tiesto
I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.
— Tiesto
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
— Eric Ries
What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
— Jon Landau
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.
— Alison Moyet
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.
— Michael Shermer