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" I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful. "

Chazz Palminteri

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" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "

" I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. "

" I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. "

" If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse. "

" I will either be famous or infamous. "

" I wanted to be successful, not famous. "

George Harrison

" Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. "

" You can get awful famous in this country in seven days. "

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

" I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. "

Sinead O'Connor

" I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. "

" Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural. "

Olivia De Havilland

" It was never about winning medals or being famous. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures. "

Amanda de Cadenet

" I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. "

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

" Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat. "

" The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. "

" When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. "

Michael Specter

" At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. "

" For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. "

" I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything. "

" Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. "

Michael N. Castle

" I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. "

" I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. "

" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "

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