Famous Quotes

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette Davis

Women, Another, Interested

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere

Work, Book, Done

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
Kim Kardashian

Yourself, Character, Pressure

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

Idiot, Easy, Talent

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele

Birthday, Living, Young

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J. K. Rowling

Wanted, Fame, Dreamt

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. Rowling

Writer, Austen, Imagined

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

Good, Someone, Giving

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Bo Bennett

Time, History, Car

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Doug Coupland

Forget, Hard, Enough

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock

Love, Almost, White

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

Money, Learned, Around

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

Successful, Become, Sat

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Clyde Tombaugh

Universe, Interested, Curiosity

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
Panayiotis Zavos

Rich, Interested, Cloning

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Matter, Themselves

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
Alanis Morissette

True, Thought, Opposite

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
Annie Leibovitz

Good, Interested

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Will Cuppy

Cool, True, Thinking

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.
Chris Rock

Love, Almost, White

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
Hedy Lamarr

Down, After, Sick

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.
Chris Rock

Sometimes, Offer, Parts

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

Life, Live, Made

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
Jeff Bridges

Alone, Dad, Father

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
Jeff Bridges

Person, Child, Ways

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