Celebrity and Famous Quotes

"The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be."

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

"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."

"I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it."

"Celebrity damages private life."

"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."

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

"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."

"I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."

"I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous."

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

"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 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 never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

"I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'"

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

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

"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."

"I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl."

"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."

"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 really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet."

"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."

"It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?"

"A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?"

"I have only one ambition, which is to be famous."

"Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again."

"I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it."

"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."

"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

"I've always strived to be successful, not famous."

"I earned my famous name."

"I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous."

"The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living."

"I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy."

"It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me."

"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."

"The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear."

"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."

"The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless."

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

"What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar."

"If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago."

"I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous."

"Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars."

"On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here."

"I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it."

"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."

"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."

"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."