Category: Quotes About Famous

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart. -Johnny Knoxville

I 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'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up. -James Woods

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous. -Kelsey Grammer

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous. -Cher

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal. -Rupert Grint

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -Ambrose Bierce

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. -Catherine Deneuve

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' -Francis Ford Coppola

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas. -Jeremy Northam

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. -Arthur Smith

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. -Beth Ditto

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents. -Adele

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

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! -Lyle Lovett

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

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

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out. -Daniel Radcliffe

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

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. -Izabella Scorupco

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. -Mario Balotelli