I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
Andy Warhol

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
Jeff Foxworthy