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" At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. "
Shawn Mendes
Famous
Started
Peers
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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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" Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me. "
Shawn Mendes
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" I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. "
Pharrell Williams
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" 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. "
Johnny Mathis
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" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "
Freida Pinto
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" I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. "
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" There's a lot more to success than just singing. "
Shawn Mendes
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" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "
Peter Jackson
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" Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre. "
Shawn Mendes
Feel
Down
Want
" From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me. "
Shawn Mendes
Me
Justin
Inspiration
" The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear. "
Al Pacino
You
Crazy
Nice
" You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. "
Zakk Wylde
Famous
Got
Love
" Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don't really feel like they did. Not everything was being filmed. Today, one huge mess-up, and millions are seeing it. There's a lot more on the line nowadays. We're so cautious and scared of messing up. It adds a lot of stress to a career. "
Shawn Mendes
Care
Day
Live
" I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there. "
Shawn Mendes
City
Saying
Me
" I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me. "
Shawn Mendes
Remember
Know
Who
" I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Joy
Me
Clothes
" There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. "
Tom Wolfe
Destiny
Child
Time
" I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything. "
Matt Damon
Famous
Love
Double
" Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail. "
Tarana Burke
Black
Like
Famous
" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "
Kevin Bacon
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Fame
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" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
Emily Dickinson
Celebrity
Famous
Punishment
" Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. "
Monica Crowley
Positive
Political
Own
" I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor. "
Taika Waititi
Than
Know
Famous
" Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated. "
Robyn Davidson
Famous
Partner
Never
" One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes. "
Jim Lee
Heroes
Famous
Universe
" I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. "
Eddie Van Halen
Fame
Rock
Meaning
" I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito. "
Phoebe Philo
Thought
Place
Love
" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "
Kevin Bacon
You
Talent
Famous
" To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. "
Hedy Lamarr
People
World
Poverty
" I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli. "
Hugh Jackman
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