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" Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. "

Jessica Alba

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You

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" You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good. "

" I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "

" It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. "

" Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. "

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

" People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood. "

" 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

" I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. "

Gillian Flynn

Good

Famous

" Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people. "

" I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. "

" The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks. "

" I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. "

" When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more. "

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

" It was never in my mind to be famous. "

" I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. "

" When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore. "

Tila Tequila

Famous

Rose

" When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins. "

" Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers. "

" I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy. "

Amber Rose

Easy

Famous

" Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me. "

David Beckham

Famous

" Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. "

" Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. "

" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "

" There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else. "

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