Famous Quotes
“As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.”
“They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.”
-- Sirhan Sirhan
“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
“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
“My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.”
-- Corey Feldman
“I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.”
-- Lee Ryan
“I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.”
-- Nicole Sullivan