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" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "

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" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "

" No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you. "

Sushant Singh Rajput

" The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. "

" I think, at the end of the day, you have to decide what you want. Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to have a career? Those are three very different things. "

Phoebe Robinson

" It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. "

" For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now. "

Howard Jacobson

" To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

" Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you. "

Oscar De La Hoya

" I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! "

Bruce Dickinson

" 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

" 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. "

" My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. "

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

" What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property. "

" Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced. "

" I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' "

Samuel L. Jackson

" I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. "

" I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more. "

" Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation. "

" I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. "

" I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big. "

" Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. "

" I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. "

" One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. "

" I will either be famous or infamous. "

" Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. "

" The strong bond of sisterhood was a famous trait in classical art and literature about Amazons. But it was modern people who interpreted that as a sexual preference for women. That started in the 20th century. The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva declared that Amazons were symbolic of lesbianism in antiquity. "

" I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person. "

" I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it. "

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