Celebrity and Famous Quotes

"Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means."

"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 was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing."

"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."

"I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.'"

"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.'"

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

"The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction."

"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."

"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."

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

"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."

"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."

"When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me."

"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."

"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."

"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."

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

"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."

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

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

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

"I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do."

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

"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."

"I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town."

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

"There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty."

"I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things."

"I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly."

"The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that."

"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."

"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."

"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

"'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about."

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

"People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it."

"The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks."

"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."

"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."

"I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean."

"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"

"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."

"I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that."

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

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

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

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

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