I Am Quotes

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

~ Sting

I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.'

~ Nicole Scherzinger

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

~ Adele

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

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

~ Stephen Hawking

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

~ Gigi Hadid

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

~ Eric Clapton

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

~ Jerry Lewis

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

~ Anna Kournikova

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

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

~ Geoff Dyer

When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

~ Nadia Comaneci

Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

~ Kate Winslet

I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.

~ Judy Blume

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

~ Jenny Lewis

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

~ Chris Martin

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

I am not famous at all.

~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

~ Ruth Negga

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

~ Chuck Berry

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

~ Lenny Abrahamson

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

~ Nick Cannon

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

~ Van Morrison

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

~ Steve Coogan

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

~ Eileen Myles

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

~ Emily Blunt

'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

~ Lou Doillon

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.

~ Stefano Gabbana

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

~ Ravi Shankar

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

~ Hamlin Garland

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

~ Wendell Berry

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

~ P. T. Barnum

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

~ Claude Monet

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

~ Brian Mcdermott

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

~ Gustav Mahler

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

~ Stefan Sagmeister