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" Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. "

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" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "

" Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person. "

" For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. "

Michelle Pfeiffer

" My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' "

" How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.' "

Trisha Yearwood

" I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. "

" I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him. "

Norman Rockwell

" When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. "

" Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood. "

" I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about. "

" When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. "

" It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger. "

" You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. "

" When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him. "

" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "

" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "

" I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated. "

" I'm gonna be famous forever. "

" Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. "

" I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. "

" He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. "

" I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. "

" And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. "

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" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. "

" I am a celebrity, and it feels good to be famous. "

" 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. "