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

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" 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. "

Rosie O'Donnell

" I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough. "

" The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it. "

" You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. "

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

" Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better. "

Melissa McCarthy

" As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. "

" Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids. "

Mario Balotelli

" A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it. "

Kacey Musgraves

" The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace. "

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

" If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. "

Eddie Van Halen

" It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. "

" I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing. "

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" For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. "

" On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. "

" The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you're ungrateful. "

" 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. "

" A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. "

" I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it. "

Christina Binkley

" I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them. "

" If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing. "

Zooey Deschanel

" 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. "

" I have been famous for a long time. "

" I love being famous - it's phenomenal. "

" I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said. "