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.”
“I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.”
-- Wale
“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.”
-- Jeff Daniels
“I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.”
-- David McCallum
“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.”
-- Brigitte Bardot
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”
-- Norman O. Brown
“You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.”
-- Whoopi Goldberg