#famous

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#counselor #did #driving #elected #famous

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#famous #got #guys #just #love

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. ↗

— Martin Yan

#being famous #constraint #famous #free #hindrance

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. ↗

— David Gest

#before #could #famous #i #wanted

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#i #insecure #lot #more #myself

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#arrives #believed #both #coming #either

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

#becomes #burns #famous #him #man

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#actor #because #famous #get #going

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize. ↗

— Danny Strong

#i #i think #just #know #lot