“Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.”
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“I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.”
“All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.”
“I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'”
“I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.”
“I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.”
“I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.”
“When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.”
“I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.”
“It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.”
“I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.”
“I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.”
“We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.”
“I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.”
“I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.”
“I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!”
“My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.”
“I actually don't feel famous.”
“Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.”
“I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.”
“I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.”
“I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.”
“I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.”
“Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.”