I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
~ George Clooney
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
~ Ang Lee
The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
~ Louis C. K.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
~ Kevin Bacon
Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'
~ Bob Newhart
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
~ Morrissey
I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
~ Solange Knowles
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
~ Madonna Ciccone
There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
~ Rashida Jones
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.
~ Louis Theroux
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
~ Isaac Hanson
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
~ Chevy Chase
It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!
~ Kevin Plank
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
~ Evel Knievel
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
~ Lynn Coady
To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
~ Diablo Cody
I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
~ Rupert Friend
Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.
~ Chris Rock
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
~ Beth Ditto
My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
~ Peyton Manning
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
~ Usain Bolt
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
~ Juliette Binoche
My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.
~ J. D. Vance
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
~ Mickey Rourke
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.
~ Sarah Gadon
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
~ James Thurber
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
~ John Travolta
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
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
~ Marina And The Diamonds
Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
~ Big Sean
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
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
~ Alexander Payne
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
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
~ A. R. Rahman
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
~ Arthur Smith
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
~ Dana Carvey
