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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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“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.” -J. K. Rowling
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“If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.” -Bo Bennett
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“Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.” -Doug Coupland
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“Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I’m famous.” -Chris Rock
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“I’ve never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.” -Clyde Tombaugh
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“We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don’t participate in this.” -Panayiotis Zavos
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“I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.” -Alanis Morissette
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“I’m more interested in being good than being famous.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.” -Will Cuppy
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“Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“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
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“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” -Andy Warhol
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“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.” -Albert Camus
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“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.” -Orson Welles
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“A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” -Britney Spears
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“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.” -Bette Davis
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“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
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“There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.” -Kim Kardashian
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“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
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“The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.” -Margot Kidder
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“You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.” -Adriana Lima
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“I seek no longer to be a ‘famous’ person, and instead I wish to live a ‘normal’ life.” -Sinead O’Connor
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“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” -Bill O’Reilly
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“When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.” -James Carville
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“Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.” -Annette Bening
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“I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.” -America Ferrera
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“If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.” -Moon Unit Zappa
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“My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough.” -Aaron Carter
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“The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.” -Anderson Cooper
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“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
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“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.” -Eminem
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“It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.” -Alan Alda
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“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.” -Ricky Gervais
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“Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.” -Lillian Hellman
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“Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.” -David Beckham
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“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.” -Jerry Lewis
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“I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.” -Anna Kournikova
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“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.” -Al Pacino
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“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.” -Jesse Owens
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“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.” -Duke Ellington
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“Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.” -Robert Wyatt
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“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.” -Maureen Dowd
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“Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.” -Lucius Accius
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“I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I’m not famous any more.” -Eva Herzigova
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“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
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“Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.” -Al Goldstein
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“I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” -Walt Disney
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“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.” -Voltaire
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“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It’s really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don’t hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don’t do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.” -Amanda Seyfried
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“I wanted to be successful, not famous.” -George Harrison
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“I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.” -Adam Sandler
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“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.” -Ray Charles
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“For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.” -Pericles
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“I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.” -Cher
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“I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.” -Ani DiFranco
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