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" I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose. "

Rene Ricard

Famous

People

Money

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" I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. "

" It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy. "

" I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. "

" I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product. "

" I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous. "

" 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. "

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Not Good Enough

Good

" Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. "

" In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. "

" In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain. "

" I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working. "

" A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant. "

" I have only one ambition, which is to be famous. "

" I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. "

" I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to. "

" It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in! "

" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "

" Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it. "

" Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. "

" Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. "

" Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. "

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

" I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. "

" Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "

" I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. "

" Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you. "