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" 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. "
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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" I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' "
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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. "
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" At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. "
Phil Donahue
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" A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. "
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" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "
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" I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy. "
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" It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. "
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" I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure. "
Barry Gibb
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" I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous. "
Lady Gaga
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" A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. "
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" I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me. "
Maxwell
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" Vine is where 'Don't' started popping off. A lot of famous Viners used the song, and that was crazy because I had never been a part of something like that. I drank champagne for the first time when it got 100,000 plays. "
Bryson Tiller
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" Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. "
Michael Morpurgo
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" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. "
David Bowie
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" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "
Lee Daniels
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" There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality. "
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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" There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. "
Kevin Bacon
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" 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. "
Matt Damon
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" What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real. "
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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" I've never been one for crushing on famous people. "
Daisy Ridley
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" I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. "
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" I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video. "
Michael Weatherly
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" Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. "
David Hasselhoff
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" When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own. "
Norman Wisdom
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" Many incredible artists die before they were famous. "
Yoko Ono
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" 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. "
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" I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country. "
Karen Gillan
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" And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. "
Shaquille O'Neal
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" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "
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