famous

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘famous’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.” -Danielle Steel

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  • “I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn’t want to be on TV, I didn’t want to be famous, I didn’t want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle –…

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  • “I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.” -Bill Nighy

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  • “Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • “I walk the streets, take the train, it’s real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: ‘Oh, I’m so famous I can’t go places, because I created this mythology that I’m so famous I can’t go places.’” -Samuel L. Jackson

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  • “My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.” -Alexander McCall Smith

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  • “I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.” -Robert Caro

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  • “I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.” -Enya

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  • “Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.” -Robert Morgan

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  • “Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.” -John Grisham

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  • “The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.” -Robert De Niro

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  • “I’ve been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it’s changed. It’s like on the arcade game, I’ve gone up to the next level.” -Kylie Minogue

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  • “My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.” -Corey Feldman

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  • “It’s more important for me to feel content than to be famous.” -Samantha Morton

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  • “I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.” -Jo Nesbo

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  • “Being famous is wicked. But it’s better to be normal.” -Rupert Grint

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  • “None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.” -Nicholas Sparks

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  • “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

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  • “I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.” -Dylan Moran

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  • “I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.” -Norman Rockwell

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  • “I don’t really consider myself to be famous.” -Victoria Justice

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  • “I was obsessed with being rich and famous.” -Paul Lynde

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  • “The good thing about L.A. is that there’s always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.” -Seth Rogen

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  • “Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some…

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  • “The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it’s a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.” -Graham Norton

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  • “I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you’re objectifying yourself in some weird way.” -Ethan Hawke

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  • “For now I’m just enjoying being a mom. I don’t want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.” -Jewel

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  • “No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.” -Wesley Snipes

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  • “I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.” -Manolo Blahnik

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  • “It’s always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.” -Emily Blunt

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  • “I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it’s very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don’t want to share.” -Rosie O’Donnell

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  • “People don’t get through to the essence of you right away – it’s always the famous ‘girl’ or the famous ‘girlfriend’. I’d rather be known for myself.” -Vanessa Paradis

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  • “You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.” -Marilu Henner

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  • “Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed.” -Alexander Payne

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  • “When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.” -Stevie Nicks

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  • “I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.” -Stephen Colbert

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  • “I remember Michael saying, ‘Rich and famous? It’s much better to be just rich’. I didn’t quite get it to begin with. But he’s right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you’ve no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.” -Julie Walters

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  • “I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.” -Yves Saint Laurent

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  • “It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that’s a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?” -Idris Elba

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  • “I really feel like it’s a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.” -Joe Rogan

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  • “Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.” -Cat Deeley

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  • “Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I’ve done, almost because I’m not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.” -Steve Coogan

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  • “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

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  • “Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.” -Meg Cabot

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  • “HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.” -Richard Russo

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  • “Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous – I always wanted to be a singer.” -Jennifer Hudson

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  • “I love being famous – it’s phenomenal.” -Dave Chappelle

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  • “I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.” -Charlie Kaufman

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  • “It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.” -Bear Grylls

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  • “When famous people come up to you it’s a bit weird, but it’s an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.” -Wayne Rooney

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  • “I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.” -Glenn Hughes

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  • “But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.” -Carol Burnett

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  • “Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity.” -William Hurt

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  • “There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.” -Sharon Stone

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  • “I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.” -Peter Cushing

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  • “You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you’re not sure what they got famous for.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, ‘What does your dad do?’ ‘What does your mom do?’” -Cynthia Nixon

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  • “I think in the end, when you’re famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I’ve just become this ambitious, say-whatever’s-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that’s part of my personality, but it’s certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.” -Madonna Ciccone

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  • “I’m famous for splurging at fast-food places. I’m currently obsessed with Taco Bell’s bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!” -Fergie

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  • “You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.” -Evel Knievel

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  • “I’ve noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It’s not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and…

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  • “Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.” -Leona Lewis

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  • “My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.” -Harrison Ford

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  • “I got the famous Oprah hug!” -Taylor Lautner

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  • “There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings – that is their paradox.” -Jane Smiley

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  • “I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.” -Gary Numan

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  • “Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it’s some kind of quality isn’t it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.” -Jarvis Cocker

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  • “I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn’t want anyone to know who I was.” -Robert Smith

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  • “I don’t want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don’t want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.” -Eric Davis

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  • “You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.” -Usain Bolt

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  • “When you look at Michael Jackson, there’s nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they’d tell him he didn’t have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael’s been a little touched for about 20 years,…

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  • “I don’t know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and…

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  • “It’s never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.” -Juliette Binoche

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  • “I didn’t get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.” -Sarah McLachlan

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  • “Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I’d become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn’t see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.” -Larry Hagman

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  • “I’m the man that made wrestling famous.” -Hulk Hogan

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  • “The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.” -Roberto Cavalli

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  • “There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.” -Tim Roth

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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

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  • “I really don’t know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.” -Janet Jackson

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  • “I’ve only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.” -Katherine Jenkins

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  • “Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like ‘You’re the romantic comedy girl’ or ‘You’re the Oscar-winning whatever girl.’” -Rachel Weisz

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  • “Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.” -Colin Mochrie

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  • “I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.” -Sarah Jessica Parker

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  • “I mean I was famous for nothing.” -Rick Springfield

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  • “I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.” -Dan Savage

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  • “Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.” -Carnie Wilson

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  • “I don’t feel famous and I didn’t want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “I always loved working as an actress, but I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.” -Debra Winger

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  • “I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.” -Jane Pauley

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  • “I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn’t tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.” -Neko Case

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  • “We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.” -Nick Clegg

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  • “I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.” -Eddie Van Halen

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  • “Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don’t teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.” -Chris Christie

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  • “The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.” -Erica Jong

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  • “Well I would say that we’re regular people first of all and we’re normal and it’s obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we’re not immune to tragedy.” -Brett Favre

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  • “A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.” -Norman Cousins

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  • “I’m not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.” -Diane Kruger

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  • “It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.” -Kate Adie

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  • “I’m as famous as I want to be.” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.” -Kurtis Blow

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  • “I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club…

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  • “Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so – like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don’t want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.” -Julie Burchill

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  • “Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don’t really dig being famous.” -Liz Phair

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  • “Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.” -Dirk Benedict

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  • “I’m glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.”…

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  • “If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.” -Gwen Stefani

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  • “You aren’t famous until my mother has heard of you.” -Jay Leno

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  • “I kept saying that I’d never live in L.A., and I didn’t think I would. But that’s where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you’re famous, its hard to live in a small…

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  • “Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed.” -Courtney Love

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  • “The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey

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  • “I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.” -Haruki Murakami

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  • “Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.” -James Wolcott

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  • “I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I…

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  • “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.” -Robert Benchley

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  • “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

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  • “I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous.” -Jeremy Renner

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  • “A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.” -Shirley Manson

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  • “The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.” -Susan Sontag

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  • “I don’t go to premieres. I don’t go to parties. I don’t covet the Oscar. I don’t want any of that. I don’t go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that’s a whole other career. And I haven’t got any energy for it.” -Gary Oldman

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  • “My hair was famous before I was.” -Christopher Walken

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  • “I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous.” -Christian Bale

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  • “Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.” -Laura Linney

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  • “I’ve been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, ‘What’s your advice?’ first I say, ‘Be born the son of a famous director. It’s invaluable.’” -Jason Reitman

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  • “I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’d be dead.’” -Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • “They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.” -Lillie Langtry

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  • “I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.” -Kristen Stewart

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  • “The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.” -Justin Timberlake

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  • “To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.” -Diablo Cody

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  • “I’d probably be famous now if I wasn’t such a good waitress.” -Jane Siberry

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  • “The whole ‘American Idol’ way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “There is this power that comes with being famous.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “I’m willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it’s psychologically important to people when they’re famous to be the only famous person they know.” -John Mayer

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  • “I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.” -Eric Clapton

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  • “I have to say, you know, I’ve seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want – have their priorities change and want different things.” -Rashida Jones

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  • “I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.” -Peter O’Toole

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  • “My mom just didn’t put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.” -Martha Plimpton

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  • “I’m not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I’m too feeble.” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “The first time I went to Johnny Depp’s house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn’t really know what that entailed.” -Kate Moss

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  • “Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.” -Lawrence Welk

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  • “Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?” -Barbra Streisand

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  • “I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don’t. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.” -Johnny Mathis

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  • “Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.” -Ilka Chase

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  • “Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.” -Marilyn vos Savant

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  • “Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.” -James Thurber

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  • “Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.” -Jet Li

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  • “You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.” -Ang Lee

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  • “And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.” -Shaquille O’Neal

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  • “There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true…

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  • “I don’t mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it’s not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one’s field. Public perks. Like, I don’t know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.” -Emma Thompson

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  • “The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn’t choose to.” -Louis C. K.

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  • “Look at Jessica Simpson. She’s famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn’t that dumb, but that’s how she was perceived – and that’s what got popular.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.” -Bono

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  • “I never pursued being ‘famous.’” -Francesca Annis

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  • “I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that’s not how I’ve chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.” -Julia Roberts

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  • “I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.” -Shirley MacLaine

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  • “I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.” -Russell Crowe

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  • “Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.” -Helena Bonham Carter

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  • “I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.” -Sting

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  • “The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.” -Tom Felton

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  • “Whenever you’re the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.” -Jeff Bridges

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  • “I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.” -Brigitte Bardot

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  • “I think it’s useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are – because otherwise I’d be sitting here thinking I’m keeping secrets, and wondering when you’re going to find out.” -Daniel Radcliffe

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  • “I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.” -Hugh Jackman

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  • “In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous.” -Michael Caine

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  • “I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous.” -Tyra Banks

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  • “When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.” -Jean-Michel Basquiat

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  • “Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.” -Jose Marti

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  • “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

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  • “I certainly don’t think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it’s even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.” -Shania Twain

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  • “One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.” -Charles Barkley

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  • “People just assume that if you’re famous, you’re in Hollywood.” -Megan Fox

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  • “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

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  • “Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn’t support me, so I am living her dream, it’s sweeter for both of us. It’s her 40th birthday soon and I’m going to buy her 40 presents.” -Adele

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  • “What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.” -Lady Gaga

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  • “Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” -Kevin Bacon

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