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" Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. "

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" It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me. "

Winona Ryder

Process

Wild

" It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? "

" 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.' "

" Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here. "

" Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. "

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

" Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking. "

" There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. "

" Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby. "

Manoj Bhargava

People

Hobby

" It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. "

" My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. "

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Duck

Famous

Mama

" One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique. "

Ken Follett

Now

People

" My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. "

" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

Europe

Africa

" I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. "

" We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. "

" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

Say

Tell

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

Anton Corbijn

I Am

Different

" To play anybody real and famous is very scary. "

" If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing. "

" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. "

" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "

" The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. "

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

" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

" 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. "

" There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good. "

" If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. "

" Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. "

" I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. "