3 December 2020 Joel McHale My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
3 December 2020 Margot Kidder The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
3 December 2020 James Purefoy Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.
3 December 2020 Freida Pinto I keep saying I’m not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
3 December 2020 Katharine Hepburn When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
3 December 2020 Laura Kightlinger I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.
3 December 2020 Idris Elba It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that’s a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
3 December 2020 Glenn Hughes I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
3 December 2020 Christopher Plummer Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
3 December 2020 Wesley Snipes No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
3 December 2020 Nicole Sullivan I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you’re famous… and it’s not. You just buy more stuff.
3 December 2020 Dylan Moran I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
3 December 2020 Seth Green I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.
3 December 2020 Heather Morris I’ve wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up – and I wrote ‘a famous singer!’
3 December 2020 Patrick Dempsey In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
3 December 2020 Jason Lee I wasn’t a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’d be dead.’
3 December 2020 Ellen Page Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can’t imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke 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.
