famous
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘famous’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.” -Mary Lou Retton
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“I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous ’89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.” -O. J. Simpson
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“For somebody famous, it’s weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.” -Ricki Lake
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“I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.” -David McCallum
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“But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.” -Rachel Griffiths
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“I’m officially near-famous. If you’ve got four year old kids and you’ve got cable, then you’ve got no choice but to know who I am. But if you’re one of my peers – a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan – you have no idea who I am. I’m only famous if you’re four.”…
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“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
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“You don’t have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I’d like more people to know that it’s there. Women’s achievements still aren’t recognised enough in many areas.” -Joan Armatrading
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“When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I’ll get girls and be famous.” -Edward Furlong
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“I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.” -Adrian Grenier
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“I’ve been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.” -Emir Kusturica
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“Here’s the funny thing about the response I’ve been aware of to my dating famous people: It’s been very negative. I’m either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.” -Dax Shepard
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“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
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“I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in ‘Vogue,’ but it’s far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.” -Bruce Oldfield
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“But things move in circles: one minute it’s the models who are famous, then it’s the actresses, then it’s the designers.” -Rachel Hunter
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“I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years – you’ve got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that’s what I’ve been doing.” -Colin Hay
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“I don’t like the idea of famous people.” -Kristin Hersh
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“The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ together in 2004 and we’ve stayed in touch.” -Adam Garcia
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“Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we’re famous all over the world.” -Martha Reeves
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“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.” -Penn Jillette
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“We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo’s, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I’m finally gonna die onstage, that’s where it’s going to be!” -Alan Vega
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“Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.” -Mickey Spillane
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“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
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“It’s very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.” -Randy Newman
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“We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.” -Katie Holmes
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“I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I’m acting, I feel great. It’s not to be famous.” -Christopher Parker
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“I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.” -Kurt Masur
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“I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called ‘Sukiyaki,’ which is a very famous Japanese song, and I’ve actually heard from people that they’ve been in bars in Asia where they’ve seen me come up in the ‘Sukiyaki’ video that they play behind you. I’m in that. I’m in a karaoke…
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“You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.” -Gene Robinson
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“Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.” -Oksana Baiul
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“Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.” -Seth Lloyd
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“It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.” -Frank Black
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“Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.” -James Purefoy
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“I don’t like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!” -Bruce Dickinson
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“He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I’ve never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.” -Saffron Burrows
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“I became famous almost before I had a craft.” -Farrah Fawcett
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“I don’t come from a famous family and don’t have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I’m just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.” -Ed Westwick
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“I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.” -James Ellroy
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“The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.” -Julian Clary
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“They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.” -Jim Capaldi
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“I’ve never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.” -Jeremy London
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“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
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“I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.” -Izabella Scorupco
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“I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.” -Seth Green
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“And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that.” -Donna Leon
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“It’s horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you’re not famous or rich, you’re not acceptable.” -Bruno Tonioli
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“I guess the nicest thing about being, I won’t say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you’ve got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn’t get done.” -Mickey Gilley
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“I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.” -Nat King Cole
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“I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.” -Sally Kirkland
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“The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.” -Lawrence Lessig
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“But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando – perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.” -Thomas Haden Church
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“I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.” -Ellen Burstyn
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“The actual truth about Gad is it’s one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn’t have cameras…
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“I’ve always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.” -Vince Gill
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“I have actor friends, but they’re not famous. I feel like if you’re an actor or – famous, you have to overly prove that you’re a normal, cool person.” -Amanda Bynes
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“I think it’s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It’s funny to me that we’re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I’m famous?” -Lisa Edelstein
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“I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.” -Valentino Rossi
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“While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.” -Pat Brown
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“It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don’t survive in solo careers.” -Don Henley
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“I want to be in ‘Glee,’ but I’m told I’m not famous enough to be a cameo yet.” -Carey Mulligan
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“Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.” -Sean Lennon
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“Your face is your calling card, but you’re not so famous that you can’t go out.” -Vincent Schiavelli
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“Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.” -Jenna Fischer
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“It was never about winning medals or being famous.” -Nancy Kerrigan
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“Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?” -Tom Sizemore
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“I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.” -Mira Sorvino
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“One of the pleasant duties of America’s most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.” -Nick Clooney
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“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.” -David Gest
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“We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.” -Ellen Pompeo
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“The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God.” -Charles Williams
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“I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.” -Jessica Alba
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“Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.” -Tia Carrere
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“It’s too late for me to get married before I’m famous. You never know people’s intentions.” -Carmelo Anthony
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“There were so much affairs of me created by the media… of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.” -Gabriela Sabatini
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“You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.” -Clive Anderson
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“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.”…
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“Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.” -Fran Drescher
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“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?” -Christopher Hampton
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“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
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“Whenever I’m in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, ‘You know what: my dad’s a really, really famous theatre director,’ because nobody has any idea.” -Rebecca Hall
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“The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.” -Elliott Erwitt
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“In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.” -Luciano Pavarotti
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“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…
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“Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.” -Bill James
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“I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous – or notorious – in certain quarters where…
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“I don’t ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after ‘East Is East’ and ‘Bend It.’” -Archie Panjabi
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“It’s been real weird. It wasn’t how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I’m gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?” -Jack Osbourne
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“The Band was always famous for its retirements we’d go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.” -Rick Danko
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“My name’s Jennifer Ellison and one day I’m going to be famous!” -Jennifer Ellison
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“I’m not cut out to be a famous person I can’t do my hair and makeup well enough.” -Jennifer Weiner
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“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
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“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.” -Leigh Hunt
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“In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.” -Patrick Dempsey
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“I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.” -David Friedman
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“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
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“It’s not like I’m the most famous person in the world.” -Ron Silver
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“A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.” -Michael Bolton
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“I’d definitely rather be rich than famous.” -Radha Mitchell
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“I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.” -Danny Elfman
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“I don’t do the whole, ‘Put my name on it, make me famous’ thing.” -T-Pain
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“There’s this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there’s no talent you won’t get the part.” -Lily Collins
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“I don’t want to be famous famous. I’m happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.” -Gabrielle Reece
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“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
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“I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.” -Zach Galifianakis
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“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.” -Arthur Golden
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“I’d die if I was Madonna. I’d die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don’t know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.” -Alicia Silverstone
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“I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds – that he’d tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.” -Toby Jones
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“You know, I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!” -Brett Somers
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“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from ‘Dumb and Dumber’ or whatever movie they liked. And that’s fine, it gets them in the door, but then…
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“I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.” -Diane Keaton
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“I keep saying I’m not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.” -Freida Pinto
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“The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.” -John McCain
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“My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.” -Lucy Hale
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“I actually don’t know anyone who wants to be famous for fame’s sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.” -Michael Ian Black
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“It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.” -Ben Stiller
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“Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don’t think having a famous father affected him much.” -Kim Weston
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“For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.” -Carla Gugino
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“Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.” -Don Johnson
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“Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.” -Michael N. Castle
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“I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.” -Eliza Dushku
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“I’ve always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.” -Bruce Willis
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“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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“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
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“You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.” -Anthony Holden
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“Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can’t imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.” -Ellen Page
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“At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.” -Phil Donahue
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“A lot of people are like, ‘So you want to be famous.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to be good at my craft. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I’m set for…
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“When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.” -Janelle Monae
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“The F-word is ‘famous,’ the C-word is ‘celebrity’ and S-word is ‘star,’ in my book. The other three words are fine – you can say those. But ‘famous,’ ‘celebrity’ and ‘star,’ I think, are misused.” -Shailene Woodley
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“I don’t need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.” -Cory Monteith
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“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
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“And I want to be able to – you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.” -Meg Whitman
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“It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the…
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“Face it, I didn’t become famous until I took my clothes off.” -Jude Law
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“You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound.” -David Lee Roth
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“Being in ‘Us Weekly’ does not make you famous.” -Bradley Cooper
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“It’s funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.” -Matt LeBlanc
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“I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.” -Martin Yan
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Quite frankly, I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.” -Anne Hathaway
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“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
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“I’m world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I’ve been able to bring them some joy from the movies I’ve made.” -Tony Curtis
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“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.” -George Matthew Adams
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“After ‘Skins’ I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.” -Nicholas Hoult
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“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
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“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
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“I wanted to go hide. I wasn’t looking to be more famous, I’m famous enough.” -Howard Stern
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“I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.” -Elizabeth Olsen
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“I get recognized, but I’m not really a famous famous.” -Dave Attell
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“Once you’re famous you can’t go back.” -Matthew Morrison
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“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
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“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
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“When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it’s cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.” -Jean Claude Van Damme
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“I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.” -Liev Schreiber
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“I certainly don’t want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn’t yet… It’s the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.” -Elizabeth Hurley
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“Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It’s all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.” -Sandra Lee
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“I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.” -Ruud van Nistelrooy
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“When I was younger, I used to say, One day I’ll be famous.” -Katie Price
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“First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It’s a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.” -Michelle Pfeiffer
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.” -Louise Brown
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“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…
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“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
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“Some of the things I’ve seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive – I’ve seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things… like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.” -Elisha Cuthbert
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“I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.” -Pharrell Williams
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“I’m not in the business of becoming famous. And that’s the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it’s not important to be seen. It’s important to do. There’s a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.” -Kristen Bell
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“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
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