Famous Quotes

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
Tom Felton

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot

Beautiful, Happy, Rich

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
Daniel Radcliffe

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
Hugh Jackman

America, Play, Boy

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
Daniel Radcliffe

Person, Living, Idea

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
Daniel Radcliffe

Person, Thinking, Find

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine

Become, Everyone, Anyone

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
Tyra Banks

Made, Living, Model

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
Francis Ford Coppola

Graduation, Big, Film

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Romantic, Feeling, Thought

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

Men, Talk, Greatness

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
Michael N. Castle

Said, Chance, Second

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
Kristen Stewart

Give, Before, Everyone

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins

Wanted, Rest, Nonsense

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Shania Twain

Life, Die, Wrong

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
Charles Barkley

Around, Pay, Pick

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
Megan Fox

Hollywood, Assume

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

Book, Words, Made

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Ilka Chase

History, Weather, Might

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

Past, Playing, Artists

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
Johnny Mathis

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

Saying, Done, Try

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
Jet Li

Movies, Amazing, Strong

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal

Business, Job, Basketball

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