I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.
If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.
Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
He raised his brows. "You're drunk. " "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're something special and you're above other people.
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.