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" Stardom can be a gilded slavery. "

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" My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. "

Martha Plimpton

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

" The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. "

" I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star. "

" I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. "

" I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous. "

" You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. "

Whoopi Goldberg

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

" To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

" I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. "

Pharrell Williams

" I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. "

" Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. "

" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "

Yves Saint Laurent

" When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. "

" There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. "

" I have been famous for a long time. "

" He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners. "

Debbie Reynolds

" I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea. "

Marissa Jaret Winokur

" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "

Emily Dickinson

" 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 know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. "

" I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. "

" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "

" The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. "

" I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. "

" There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. "

" 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 don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "