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" 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. "

Luciano Pavarotti

Famous

You

Good

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" 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. "

" I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt. "

" I'm the man that made wrestling famous. "

" It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. "

" If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard. "

" Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. "

Luciano Pavarotti

Learning

Reading

" I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. "

T-Pain

Make

Whole

" Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. "

" Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. "

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

Anton Corbijn

I Am

Different

" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "

" My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol. "

" I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory. "

" 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. "

" People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase. "

" You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. "

" I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. "

" I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. "

" The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing. "

" My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. "

" My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' "

" My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing. "

" I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people. "

" My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. "