(437 quotes found)
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? People are nice to ya, they give you the beneift o' the doubt... You drive a flash car down the freeway and the cops'll pull y'over and before they even look they like 'What the f**k are you doing?' and then they see it's you and they like 'Awww man, it's Chris Rock, it's okay, man we thought you was a nigga'.”
Chris Rock
“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
George Harrison
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.”
Christian Bale
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
Will Cuppy
“I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."”
Johnny Cash
“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”
Kevin Bacon
“I'm famous, but I'm not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.”
Britney Spears
“There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.”
“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen