Fame And Famous Quotes And Sayings

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“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.”
– Moliere

“If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.”
– Moon Unit Zappa

“I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.”
– Noomi Rapace

“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.”
– Norman Cousins

“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.”
– Orson Welles

“I will either be famous or infamous.”
– Otto Dix

“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.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don’t participate in this.”
– Panayiotis Zavos

“For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.”
– Pericles

“There’s a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn’t be able to just dress up and look pretty.”
– Rashida Jones

“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
– Ray Charles

“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.”
– Ricky Gervais

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
– Robert Benchley

“Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.”
– Robert Wyatt

“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”
– Roberto Cavalli

“There is this power that comes with being famous.”
– Rod Stewart

“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.”
– Russell Crowe

“I certainly don’t think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it’s even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.”
– Shania Twain

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.”
– Shirley MacLaine

“A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.”
– Shirley Manson

“I seek no longer to be a ‘famous’ person, and instead I wish to live a ‘normal’ life.”
– Sinead O’Connor

“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.”
– Steve Wozniak

“The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.”
– Steven Patrick Morrissey

“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
– Sting

“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.”
– Sun Myung Moon

“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”
– Susan Sontag

“And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it’s not real. And it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.”
– Tom Felton

“The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.”
– Tom Felton

“I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous.”
– Tyra Banks

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