Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
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 Musl...
I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful fig...
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
I don't really see myself as famous.
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not an...
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory...
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.
I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
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.
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the ...
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
