634 Quotes About Famous

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

I don't want to name drop, but Russell Crowe is the most famous person in my phone.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

It's just magic. I told Sal he's going to get famous off it.

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.