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" Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. "

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" Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous. "

" To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers. "

" I wanted to be successful, not famous. "

George Harrison

" You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. "

" I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me. "

" Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. "

" I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "

" I do not like being famous. I like being normal. "

" Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive. "

" Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking. "

" Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me. "

Imelda Staunton

" I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way. "

" Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. "

" When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image. "

" Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me. "

" The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. "

Henry Kissinger

" Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was. "

" But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. "

Rachel Griffiths

" I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous. "

" Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. "

" I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. "

" For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now. "

Howard Jacobson

" My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. "

" My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. "

" Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it. "

" You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. "

" 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. "

" I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. "