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I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

- Robert Crumb

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

- Kurtis Blow

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

- Don Johnson

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

- Alberto Korda

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

- Saffron Burrows

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

- Brigitte Bardot

To be famous and broke is hard.

- David Spade

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

- William Scott

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

- Edgar Winter

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

- Rachel Griffiths

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

- Nicholas Sparks

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

- Andy Warhol

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

- Salmon P. Chase

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

- Kin Hubbard

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

- Jamie Muir

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

- Ann Wilson

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

- Danny Bonaduce

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was famous from birth.

- Peter Fonda

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

- Anthony Hopkins

I'm as famous as I want to be.

- Tracey Ullman

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

- Lawrence Welk

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

- Ambrose Bierce

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

- Michael Bolton

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

- Kevin Kline

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

- Louise Brown

I actually don't feel famous.

- Anwar Robinson

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

- Andy Warhol

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

- David Walliams

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

- Danielle Steel