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" Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. "

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" My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. "

Martha Plimpton

" The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be. "

" I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. "

Valentino Rossi

" I'm kinda famous for my barbecues - I'm always hosting parties. "

" Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do. "

" I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. "

" The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. "

Justin Timberlake

" After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. "

" Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits. "

" I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy. "

" I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want. "

" I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame. "

" I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that. "

" When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. "

Domhnall Gleeson

" My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. "

" The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are. "

" The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. "

" I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. "

" I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. "

" I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish. "

" Fame is the thirst of youth. "

" Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. "

" The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity. "

" When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. "

Mario Balotelli

" I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house. "

" A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant. "

" Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. "

David Hasselhoff

" In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. "

Patrick Dempsey