Famous Quotes

I’m not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I’m not saying, ‘I’m sooo not famous,’ I’m trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

It is so strange – if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: ‘You see,’ he says, ‘now that’s formalism.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.

There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.

What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.