700 Quotes Regarding Famous


Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz

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.
Adele

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
Amanda Seyfried

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
Catherine Deneuve

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles

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

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.
Cher

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda

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.
Bill Murray