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" I love being famous - it's phenomenal. "
Dave Chappelle
Love
Famous
Phenomenal
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Dylan Moran
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" Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen? "
Tom Sizemore
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" Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. "
Don Johnson
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" Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. "
Dave Chappelle
Money
Life
Me
" When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' "
Francis Ford Coppola
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You
Now
" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "
James Marsh
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School
" I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous. "
Britney Spears
Sometimes
Denial
Very
" 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
" I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. "
Johnny Mathis
Way
Famous
Think
" I don't like the idea of famous people. "
Kristin Hersh
Famous People
People
Like
" Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. "
Duke Ellington
Young
Fate
Want
" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "
Kevin Bacon
You
Talent
Famous
" I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue. "
Dave Chappelle
Work
Money
Say
" I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal. "
Patrick Rothfuss
You
Cool
Myself
" 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
Famous
Complex
Whatever
" I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time. "
Marianne Williamson
" In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band. "
Neal Schon
Famous
Famous People
People
" I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.' "
Philip Seymour Hoffman
God
Empathy
Famous
" One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. "
Kevin Bacon
Live
Know
You
" The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. "
Charles Williams
Love
Famous
God
" 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
" One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them. "
Maz Jobrani
End
Famous
Funny
" I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking. "
Glenn Hughes
Bad Times
Bad
Famous
" The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. "
Oliver North
America
Blind
Eye
" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "
Gordon Brown
World
Work
War
" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "
Sia
Music
Face
Live
" Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle. "
Michael Keaton
Party
Lifestyle
Famous
" John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. "
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Famous
Place
Truth
" You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me. "
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" I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile. "
Tim O'Brien
Soldiers
Money
Man