Famous Quotes

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

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.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

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.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

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.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

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.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

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.'

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.