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" You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. "

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" Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies. "

" I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. "

" The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. "

" People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it. "

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

" I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people. "

" On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. "

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" The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. "

" I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. "

" 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. "

" Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up. "

" My buildings are more famous than me. "

" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "

" Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. "

" When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. "

" If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago. "

" While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control. "

" Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids. "

" Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day. "

" I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now. "

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

" I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. "

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

" I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. "

" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "

" To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business. "

" The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to. "

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