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" I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. "

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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. "

" 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

" Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. "

" I've never been one for crushing on famous people. "

" I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures. "

Amanda de Cadenet

" My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. "

" In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me. "

Olivier Martinez

" I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.' "

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

Stephen Hawking

" Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry. "

" Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos. "

" Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. "

" Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous. "

" While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control. "

" I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. "

" I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. "

Sarah Jessica Parker

" I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything. "

" I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff. "

Nicole Sullivan

" Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart. "

" If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real. "

" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "

" My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!' "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal. "

" I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. "

" I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. "

" I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that. "

" I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. "

" I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled. "

" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "