Me Quotes

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

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 took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

~ D. B. Sweeney

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

~ Bonnie Hunt

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

~ Juliette Binoche

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 was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

~ Loni Love

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

~ Cat Stevens

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

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

~ Paul Samuelson

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

~ Nate Berkus

I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.'

~ Kumail Nanjiani

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

~ Haile Gebrselassie

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

~ Nick Kroll

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

~ Trinny Woodall

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

~ Anthony Joshua

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

~ Dave Chappelle

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

~ Martha Plimpton

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

~ Seth Rogen

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

~ Linda Ronstadt

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

~ Steve Vai

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

~ Tom Sizemore

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

A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.

~ Alfie Allen

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

~ Mario Testino

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

~ Tiesto

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

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

~ Van Morrison

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

~ Shirley Temple

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

~ Danielle Steel

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

~ Danielle Steel

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

~ Dawn French

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

~ Bipasha Basu

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

~ Ashley Jensen

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

~ Zoe Sugg

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

~ Samantha Morton

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

~ Fka Twigs

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

~ Ken Follett

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

~ Nicole Scherzinger