“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.”
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“I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.”
“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.”
“I don't really consider myself to be famous.”
“I was obsessed with being rich and famous.”
“Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.”
“I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.”
“The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.”
“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 relevance.”
“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.”
“I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.”
“It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.”
“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 - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.”
“I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.”
“I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.”
“Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.”
“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.'”
“The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.”
“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.”
“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.”
“I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.”