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“I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.”
“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 that we're in?'”
“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.”
“I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.”
“As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.”
“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.”
“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.”
“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.”
“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.”
“There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.”
“I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“I mean I was famous for nothing.”
“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”
“Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.”
“When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.”
“I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”