People Quotes

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

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

~ Hedy Lamarr

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

~ Russell Crowe

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

~ Bill Nighy

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

~ Charlie Kaufman

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

~ Zara Larsson

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

~ Yo-Yo Ma

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

~ Rainn Wilson

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

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

~ Arthur Smith

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

~ Vanessa Paradis

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

~ John Tesh

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

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

~ Graham Norton

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

~ Michael Palin

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

~ Eric Davis

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

~ Danielle Steel

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

~ Ethan Hawke

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

~ Roberto Cavalli

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 think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

~ Jo Nesbo

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

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

~ Robert De Niro

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

~ Barry Gibb

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

~ Nicolas Chamfort

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

~ Russell Brand

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

~ Lucky Blue Smith

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

~ Emir Kusturica

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

~ Gareth Bale

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

~ Frances Bean Cobain

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

~ Billy Baldwin

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

~ Steve James

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

~ Hal Boyle

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

~ Simon Sinek

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

~ Bill Watterson

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

~ Harrison Ford