The Turkish government is very famous for hunting down those who oppose Erdogan… I just didn’t really want to risk my life by going to Europe where Erdogan’s long arms are everywhere.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn’t know half of them!
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don’t teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.
Public scandals are America’s favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ‘cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.
I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, ‘The Last Temptation of Christ.’ He used my song in the background.
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
It’s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren’t the purpose of all this. No actor’s going to say, ‘I don’t want to be famous.’ But the main purpose for doing what I’m doing is the passion in the work.
Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.
VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API.
You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.
I’ve gotten books published. I’ve met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, ‘Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.’
I admire sensible, kind people. They’re not often famous.
I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.
I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they’re on Twitter. It’s just stupid.
It isn’t false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn’t mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
It doesn’t really matter how famous I am. What’s important is that Bulgaria is represented in a good and positive way all around the world.
