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" I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times. "

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" In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed. "

" 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 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. "

" I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.' "

" I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal. "

" It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. "

" I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me. "

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" It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. "

" People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.' "

" A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. "

" I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know? "

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

" I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. "

" I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. "

" I want to become more famous, even more famous. "

" At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. "

" But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. "

" Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. "

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" You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time. "

" I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen. "

" Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything. "

" Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. "

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" I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. "

" Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. "

" I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share. "

" In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. "