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" 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. "

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" My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. "

" Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion. "

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

" But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. "

" I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. "

" When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous. "

Katharine Hepburn

" Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous. "

" When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! "

Agnetha Faltskog

" I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys. "

" I became famous almost before I had a craft. "

" If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special. "

Roberto Cavalli

" You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny. "

" Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity. "

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" I don't know what 'famous' is, really. "

Karl Pilkington

" I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. "

" I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. "

" All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. "

" 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'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. "

" You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me. "

" I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt. "

" The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. "

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" People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.' "

" I mean I was famous for nothing. "

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" I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that. "

" What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it. "

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" I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous. "

" It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot. "

" I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done. "