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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
— Nancy Kerrigan
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Nobody sane wants just to be famous.
— Jamie Dornan
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
— Robert M. Parker Jr.
The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
— Catherine Hardwicke
I never fired anyone for telling me I was wrong.
— Graham Speechley
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
— Meir Soloveichik
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
— Alice Munro
Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
'Tis brief, my lord ... as woman's love.
— William Shakespeare
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
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
— Farrah Fawcett
Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!
— Ernesto Che Guevara
I would like to be famous but unknown.
— Edgar Degas
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
— Robert Galbraith
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
— Joe Rogan
Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.
— Barry Manilow
I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
— Richard Paul Evans
I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.
— Victoria Beckham
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
— Nat King Cole
Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.
— Hedy Lamarr
I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.
— Roseanne Barr
I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.
— Taryn Manning
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
— Jerry Lewis
It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.
— Robert Black
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.
— Logan Lerman
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
— Robert Motherwell
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
— Neil Strauss
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I grew up once, I decided never to do it again
— Benny Bellamacina
The smile of a stranger can lead you into your joy
— Liz Hester
E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.
— Daniel Black
You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.
— Kimora Lee Simmons
Believe for big things, dream extravagantly, expect God to do miracles and let's make His name famous across the earth.
— Christian
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
— Ken Kesey
My buildings are more famous than me.
— Jean Nouvel
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
— C. JoyBell C.
Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
— Meghan Daum
Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard ... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before it's subject has become famous?
— Markus Zusak
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
— Colin Hay
It ain't nothing till I call it.
— Bill Klem
I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.
— Roseanne Barr
Well, it made you famous.
— John S. Mosby
John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.
— Tim Pat Coogan
To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.
— Chris Colfer
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
— Mark Twain
There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Being humble is cooler than being famous.
— Robin Sharma
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
— Robert Smith
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
— Van Morrison
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
— Henry David Thoreau
In Germany I am not so famous.
— Hans Berger
My past is ahead of me because I am beyond my past.
— Steven Cuoco
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
— Gloria Emerson
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
— Simeon Strunsky
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
— Jerry Jeff Walker
On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
— Michelangelo
I don't feel famous.
— Tamara Feldman
I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.
— Bryan Greenberg
Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.
— Stefan Persson
I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.
— Janet Jackson
I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.
— Jessica Alba
It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise.
— Saul Bellow
On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless
— Prodigy
Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.
— Robyn Davidson
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
— Ethan Hawke
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
— Jeff Goldblum
You can make any quote sound meaningful by putting a famous person's name after it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
— Stephen Hawking
Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'
— Victoria Beckham
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
— Freida Pinto
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
— Princess Margaret
I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
— Katherine Jenkins
If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential
— Sunday Adelaja
From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.
— Jimmy Hoffa
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.
— Ralph Ellison