Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

fame

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

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

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

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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

I'm famous. That's my job.

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

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

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

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

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

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

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.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

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