Famous Quotes: Famous

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
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HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
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I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
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You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
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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.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
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You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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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.
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