How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

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 didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Norman Rockwell

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Bill O'Reilly

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
John McCain

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Stephen Colbert

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
James Carville

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Britney Spears

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
Marilyn vos Savant

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

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

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
George Matthew Adams

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Jesse Owens