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" It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. "

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" I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. "

" 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. "

" 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

" There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. "

" I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time. "

" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "

" I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. "

" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "

Emily Dickinson

" Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get. "

" I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much. "

" A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. "

" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "

" It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter. "

" The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. "

" If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special. "

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" I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time. "

" I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love. "

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

" There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. "

" Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving. "

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" On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. "

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" I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.' "

" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "

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" I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. "

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