Famous Quotes
“Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.”
“On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.”
-- Eberhard Weber
“I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.”
-- Juliette Lewis
“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”
-- Adam Brody
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
-- Norman Cousins
“I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.”
-- Jerry Jeff Walker
“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”
-- Rainn Wilson
“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
-- Alan Alda
“Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.”
-- Will Arnett