Famous Quotes

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous.

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

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.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

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.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

When you come to the Bay, we always had this slick talk. E-40 made it real famous. We make up words. We talk real funny. When you hang around a bunch of Bay cats, you're like, 'You guys are funny.' But that's our way.

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.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.

Coco Chanel had that famous line about when you go out the house take off one accessory, so I kind of live by that rule.

Before I started my modeling career at 20, I used to replay fashion show videos on-line and study how famous models walk and pose on runways.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.