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" I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people. "
Sophia Myles
Famous
People
Want
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" 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. "
Kylie Minogue
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" I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way. "
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" Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it. "
Rita Moreno
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" Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. "
Kevin Hart
Day
Work
End
" My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. "
Dawn French
Daughter
Famous
Gone
" I don't know what 'famous' is, really. "
Karl Pilkington
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Know
Really
" I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' "
Stephen Hunter
Man
Famous
I Am
" I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful. "
Nigel Hamilton
Doctor
Daily
Famous
" 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. "
Frank Deford
Garden
Game
Team
" I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. "
Kate Winslet
Meaning
Famous
Know
" If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing. "
Zooey Deschanel
People
Famous
Morning
" Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. "
Silvia Colloca
Famous
American
America
" I do not like being famous. I like being normal. "
Vince Gill
Famous
Normal
Being Famous
" Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice. "
Uzodinma Iweala
Famous
Short
Imagination
" Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail. "
Tarana Burke
Black
Like
Famous
" Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about. "
Jerry Oppenheimer
Woman
Children
Family
" I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn. "
Marcia Clark
Protection
Kind
Up
" It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. "
Randy Newman
Famous
Age
Young
" Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. "
Fran Drescher
Me
Events
Famous
" 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
Me
Life
Giving
" The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. "
Seth Rogen
Good
More
Someone
" I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect. "
Solange Knowles
You
Famous
Family
" There's a famous saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' I want to change it to 'Hell hath no fury like a nation scorned.' "
Adnan Sami
Change
Woman
Saying
" There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background. "
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Famous
Last
Song
" I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. "
Frances Bean Cobain
Famous
People
Parents
" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "
Robert Wyatt
Less
More
You
" He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners. "
Debbie Reynolds
Royal
Famous
Handsome
" I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.' "
Kumail Nanjiani
Me
People
Walking
" My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it. "
Ronan Farrow
Famous
Map
Memory