When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. – James Carville
I want to be famous everywhere. – Luciano Pavarotti
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. – America Ferrera
I will either be famous or infamous. – Otto Dix
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. – Johnny Mathis
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. – Marilyn Monroe
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. – Andy Warhol
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. – Sun Myung Moon
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. – Ellen DeGeneres
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. – Bette Davis
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. – Moliere
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. – J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. – J. K. Rowling
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. – Bo Bennett
I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. – Alanis Morissette
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. – Hedy Lamarr
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. – Cat Stevens