Famous Quotes

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

Everyone, Minutes

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

Around, Throw, Weight

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

Become, Name, Burden

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

Free, Moment, Longer

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce

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

Become, Ability, Martyrdom

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz

Fame, Andy, Warhol

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison

Successful, Wanted

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
Adele

Music, Talk, Wanted

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
Amanda Seyfried

Life, Live, Job

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

Long, Lived, Heroes

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler

Friends, Small, Play

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles

Men, Whole, Earth

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
Catherine Deneuve

Convenient, Anonymous

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

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.
Cher

Politics, Opinions, Supposed

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco

Rich, Able, Rather

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno

Mother, Until, Heard

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda

Happy, Rich, Necessary

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
Jeff Foxworthy

Life, Nothing, Prepares

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
David Beckham

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
Don Johnson

Rich, Whatever, Bigger

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman

Cannot, Hour, Mark

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

Hate, Genius, Wealthy

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

Time, Person, Entire

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