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" I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. "

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" It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. "

Juliette Binoche

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

" It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy. "

" My buildings are more famous than me. "

" What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else. "

" People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase. "

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

" It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. "

" I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage. "

Beyonce Knowles

" All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs. "

" Stardom can be a gilded slavery. "

" I've always strived to be successful, not famous. "

" In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels. "

" 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

" 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?' "

" It was never about winning medals or being famous. "

" We don't feel like we're famous. We just feel like we're doing what we love. "

" 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. "

" Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. "

" Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much. "

" Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. "

Michael N. Castle

" Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. "

" I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' "

Mattie Stepanek

" They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. "

" Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous. "

" I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. "

" Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes. "

" The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. "

" 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. "

" Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out. "

Vincent Schiavelli