Famous Quotes

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

Donna Leon

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Danica McKellar

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

Dave Madden

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling,...

Debbie Macomber

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

Dylan Moran

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not n...

David Oyelowo

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

Dan Pfeiffer

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would...

Diplo

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Dennis Quaid

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

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

Daniel Radcliffe

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

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the ne...

Don Rickles

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

Danielle Steel

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Danielle Steel

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Danielle Steel

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

Danny Strong

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

Dan Savage

To be famous and broke is hard.

David Spade

When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.

David Suchet

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Dee Snider