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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. "

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

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" It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working. "

Amanda Seyfried

" I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. "

" I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. "

" My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics. "

Natalie Massenet

" 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. "

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" You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. "

" I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that. "

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" I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. "

" The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them. "

Kristen Stewart

" I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! "

Bruce Dickinson

" The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family. "

" The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace. "

" I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young. "

" I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success. "

" I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous. "

" Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything. "

" To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. "

" I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. "

" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "

" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "

" In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels. "

" 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. "

" The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place. "

" I have been famous for a long time. "

" You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you. "

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