Famous Quotes

“I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.”

-- Herb Ritts

“I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.”

-- Dave Attell

“I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.”

-- Cory Monteith

“I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.”

-- Eliza Dushku

“In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!”

-- Lizzie Brochere

“When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.”

-- Mario Balotelli

“I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.”

-- Wendy Cope

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.”

-- Diane Keaton

“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”

-- Kenneth Anger