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

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

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

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Lady Gaga

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
Lady Gaga

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
Brett Favre

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles

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

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante