Celebrity and Famous Quotes

"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."

"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."

"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."

"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."

"All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory."

"Andy Warhol made fame more famous."

"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."

"Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you."

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

"Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion."

"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."

"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."

"Celebrity damages private life."

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."

"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."

"Cheryl Cole is one of the few incredibly famous people who still seems to say what they think. I really like that; plus, I do fancy her quite a bit."

"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."

"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."

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

"Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life."

"Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy."

"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

"Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product."

"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

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

"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."

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

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30."

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't."

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

"I am not interested in just doing something for the sake of it, or to make X amount of money, or to be famous in a certain way. I am more concerned with just making things that are quality and that aren't polarizing or divisive. It's just stuff that's good."

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

"I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become."

"I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was."

"I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city."

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."

"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."

"I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong."

"I earned my famous name."

"I had a sense of who I was before I got famous."

"I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time."