Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive it's funny?

We don't really go in for big family dinners but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo the people were looking at the stars expecting aid from them. Now six centuries later they are looking at the stars again waiting to conquer them.

They can gas me but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous wants to be famous is famous has been married to someone famous worked with someone famous slept with someone famous been blackmailed by someone famous.

I think the thing to remember though the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels is that the idea of angels was created by human beings who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

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

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Everyone always asks me 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

More than anything else my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young sexy and available. She was all that and more. She had big blue eyes alabaster skin a heart-shaped face a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

Slowly but surely we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy which is our objective.

The big thing that everyone forgets you're famous and on TV and everything but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song record it and have it turn out as you heard it in your head or even better.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes or fisherman's octopus and shrimps fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.