Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: famous

I thought I'd be famous for being cute.

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Vegas is famous for a lot of things, and bad marriages are one of them. Margo and I are proof that you can make this work. It just takes a little effort.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

I've got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot 'Old Boy,' which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He's really a true master.

Ain't nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.