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Quotes About Famous

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
~ Rob Lowe
I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.
~ Sarah Hyland
'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly famous show in America, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.
~ Harry Shearer
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
~ John Milton
Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare's famous speech.
~ Tasha Alexander
The food in Mathura is authentic and delicious. Mathura is famous for its Chana Chidwa which was my cheat snack for the two days I spent there.
~ Siddharth Shukla
The place was famous for always having 'six comely maidens' working there," I said, with air quotes, "'serving the customers ale and aught.'" "What's aught?" asked Tristan. "Whatever you want it to be," I said.
~ Neal Stephenson
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
~ Jason Lee
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.
~ Greg Louganis
My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since.
~ Stella McCartney
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
~ Eddie Van Halen
I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.
~ Jasper Carrott
Jackie Chan is a myth.
~ Jackie Chan
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.
~ Trevor Paglen
La Tour d'Argent (15 quai Tournelle)
~ Christina Henry De Tessan
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
~ Kylie Minogue
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
If your father was just an ordinary father and told everybody he had no son, people would call him a liar. But if your father was famous for all the saints he was making and said he had no son, then he had no son, period.
~ Gina Berriault
la vida, la famosa vida...
~ Giorgio Bassani
escribía sus Elogios de los escritores célebres
~ Giorgio Vasari
This included the famous tale Cavalleria rusticana, later adapted by Verga for the theatre, this adaptation then being used as the basis for the libretto of Mascagni's opera.
~ Giovanni Verga
In a famous seven-hundred-page judgment, a German court once concluded that there was no way the death of Anastasia could be conclusively proven.
~ Glenn Meade
That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.
~ Gordon Banks
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
~ Jack Vance