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" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level. "

" You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. "

" Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. "

" I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about. "

" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. "

" Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. "

" The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. "

" Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good. "

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

Imelda Staunton

" I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. "

" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

" People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. "

" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "

" 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. "

" Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family. "

" If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us. "

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

" I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success. "

" I just had an idea that went right over my head. "

" Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. "

" Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. "

" I mean I was famous for nothing. "

Rick Springfield

" I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. "

" Andy Warhol made fame more famous. "

" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "

Michael Douglas

" You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs. "

" I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much. "

" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. "

Robert Benchley