“Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.”
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“Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.”
“The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.”
“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.”
“It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.”
“There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.”
“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.”
“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
“Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'”
“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.”
“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.”
“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”
“Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.”
“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 meaning.”
“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.”