Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlize Theron

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Barry Sanders

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Frances Wright

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

David Kerr

You really need to look at making repairs that are profitable in terms of selling the house. They want to see that pedestal sink.

Neal Shusterman

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Vivienne Westwood

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Edward R. Murrow

Fame is morally neutral.

Edward Norton

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.