People Quotes

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

~ John Hurt

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 think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

~ Ansel Elgort

My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!'

~ Nikki Reed

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

~ Maisie Williams

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

~ Johnny Mathis

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

~ Tom Ford

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.

~ Alexandra Daddario

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

~ Edmund White

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

~ Rashida Jones

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

~ Roseanne Barr

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

~ Jennifer Coolidge

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

~ Jenny Slate

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

~ Julie Burchill

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

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

~ Noel Gallagher

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

~ Natalie Massenet

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

~ Alice Waters

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

~ Chris Rock

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

~ Helena Bonham Carter

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

~ Pankaj Mishra

Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I'm watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people.

~ Tig Notaro

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

~ Ethan Canin

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.

~ Elaine Stritch

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 would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

~ Mary Lambert

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

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

~ Ruth Negga

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

~ Brett Favre

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

~ Jason Alexander

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

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

~ Miranda Otto

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

~ Diane Kruger

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

~ Erica Jong

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

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

~ Shirley Manson

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

~ Haile Gebrselassie

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

~ Terry Wogan

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