“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”
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“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it 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.”
“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.”
“People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.”
“I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.”
“They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.”
“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.”
“I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
“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.”
“I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.”
“Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.”
“Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.”