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" It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. "
Ben Stiller
Parents
Famous
Blessing
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" If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. "
Michael Schumacher
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" Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. "
Dolph Lundgren
Famous
Think
Just
" I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. "
Robert Crumb
Becoming
Revenge
World
" Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits. "
Michael Korda
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" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "
Rufus Wainwright
Famous
Friends
Go
" I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. "
Ben Stiller
Energy
Best
Work
" 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. "
Don Henley
Survive
Know
Pretty
" I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. "
Donna Leon
Take
Famous
Being
" 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
" It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor. "
Gary Lineker
Struggle
Find
You
" Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. "
Marilyn Monroe
You
Know
Good
" Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. "
Lucius Accius
Famous
Whose
Misfortunes
" Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Perception
Always
Down
" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "
J. K. Rowling
Famous
Wanted
Never
" 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
Walk
Simple
Own
" You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous. "
Dave Chappelle
Famous
You
Infamous
" 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. "
Eddie Rickenbacker
Moment
Unexpected
Famous
" I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. "
John Mayer
Think
Famous
Important
" I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes. "
Leon Russell
Famous
Start
Thought
" I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it. "
John Hurt
Way
Nice
Walk
" Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality. "
Elizabeth Flock
Reality
Famous
Words
" One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. "
Rob Lowe
Looking
Interesting
Famous
" What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. "
Voltaire
Name
Heavy
Famous
" I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. "
Emma Thompson
Famous
Two
Point
" Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "
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Followers
Instagram
Think
" I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous. "
Sia
Stars
Pop
Then
" You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle. "
Wilma Rudolph
Kings
World
Struggle
" I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time. "
Marianne Williamson
" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "
Peter Jackson
Creatures
Famous
New
" My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. "
Mark Helprin
Father
Way
Purpose