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" The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. "

Anderson Cooper

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" I grew up saying, 'I want to be famous,' but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, 'I want to be successful.' "

Ashleigh Murray

" I don't like the idea of famous people. "

" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "

" I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. "

" Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool. "

" In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me. "

Olivier Martinez

" I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. "

" When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet. "

" I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause. "

Jodie Whittaker

" 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. "

" I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. "

" The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles. "

" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "

Rufus Wainwright

" On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. "

Christopher Lee

" I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. "

" Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal. "

" My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea. "

" I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. "

" In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. "

" If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard. "

" You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous. "

" After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. "

" I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

" 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. "

" I have only one ambition, which is to be famous. "

Robbie Williams

" I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous. "

" If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it. "

" I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. "

" Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. "