Know Quotes

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

~ Kate Winslet

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

~ Kate Winslet

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

~ Ian Mckellen

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

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

~ Brad Paisley

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

~ Jill Scott

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

~ Adam Mckay

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

~ Ron White

When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.

~ George A. Romero

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

~ Kate Moss

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

~ Alan Alda

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

~ Hugh Jackman

Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

~ Melissa Mccarthy

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'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

~ John Mayer

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

~ Diablo Cody

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

~ Karl Pilkington

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

~ Leona Lewis

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

~ John Le Carré

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor.

~ Anton Du Beke

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

~ Idris Elba

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

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

~ Jillian Hervey

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

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

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

~ Ed Sheeran

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

~ Benigno Aquino Iii

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

~ Cher

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

~ Bob Seger

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

~ Jeremy Renner

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

~ Emma Thompson

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

~ David Walliams

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

~ Emily Blunt

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

~ Corey Feldman

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

~ Zoe Sugg

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

~ Mo Yan