Quotes tagged ‘Fame’

“What would Dr. Frankenstein be without his creature?”

— John Logan, The Creature, Rory Kinnear, imdb.com

“I know it's hard sometimes, but try to keep in mind that I'm human. Fuck all the fortune and fame, forget the name, I'm a human.”

— R. Kelly, genius.com

“Artists, long-term success is built through lots of small, daily victories. It doesn't happen overnight.”

— Eric Alper, twitter.com

“People think you are this grand person who has all their shit together because you are able to put your feelings into some songs. They write letters and come to the shows and even to the house, hoping we can fix everything for them. But we can’t…because we don't have all our shit together either. Wh…”

— Eddie Vedder, articles.latimes.com

“If ever a man deserved his success, that man was Okonkwo. At an early age he had achieved fame as the greatest wrestler in all the land. That was not luck. At the most one could say that his chi or personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man say yes his chi says yes also…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I like the financial security because I know how hard it is for so many people who struggle to earn a living. I'm grateful I don't have to worry about money and I can live very freely and do something I love and get paid very well to do it. I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I'm getting…”

— Jennifer Lawrence, mirror.co.uk

“I’m the fastest pee-er ever. I’m famous for it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, rollingstone.com

“The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.”

— Wayne Gretzky, imdb.com

“When I left England for the first time in 1871 much of the world had already been colonised by Britain: Australia in 1770; India in 1757, and Canada in 1763. South Africa, however, was only partly controlled by Britain, and I saw this as a place where I might become as famous as Captain Cook, Robert…”

— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com

“These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'”

— Kid Cudi, complex.com

“My parents gave me this huge list of things to do that they didn’t think I would do and I actually did them all [laughs], so they had to let me go. About a month later, I drove someone to a party because they were drunk and it turned out to be at my future manager’s house. I got a publishing deal an…”

— Maty Noyes, out.com

“I think people confuse the idea of having this fantastical job with somehow being a fantastical individual. Like, 'How could you possibly make breakfast?' Well, hunger is a good motivator!”

— Julia Roberts, harpersbazaar.com

“I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.”

— Julia Roberts, articles.chicagotribune.com

“I never grew up expecting to be famous.”

— David Beckham, gq.com

“I’ve never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.”

— David Beckham, gq.com

“Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was destined for great things. I was going to be somebody. Person of significance. Star of the silver screen, I once thought. But...my dreams became nightmares. Instead of laurels, funeral wreaths. Instead of glory, heh, bitter disappointment. Cruel afflictio…”

— Jessica Sharzer, Constance Langdon, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“The only thing I ever thought about or knew was that I was going to be famous. I knew I would either have a big show or movie or all of it. That was a feeling I always had.”

— Roseanne Barr, vanityfair.com

“So you're saying we've got two super-famous, super-pissed-off ghosts killing their...super-fans?”

— Julie Siege, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.”

— Joe Louis, goodreads.com

“You know, being a billionaire I never get to talk about this with anyone 'cause who's gonna give a shit? But being a billionaire, when you walk into a room, it's like being a woman with a perfect set of tits.”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com