3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’ve been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, ‘What’s your advice?’ first I say, ‘Be born the son of a famous director. It’s invaluable.’
3 December 2020 Shirley Knight My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
3 December 2020 Danielle Steel I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.
3 December 2020 Lily Collins There’s this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there’s no talent you won’t get the part.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.
3 December 2020 Tom Wolfe 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.
3 December 2020 Rebecca Black I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I’m trying to pick up tips.
3 December 2020 Christopher Parker I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I’m acting, I feel great. It’s not to be famous.
3 December 2020 Bill Murray There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
3 December 2020 Sally Kirkland I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
3 December 2020 Ian Rush There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That’s what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
3 December 2020 Mickey Spillane Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
3 December 2020 Sharon Stone There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
3 December 2020 Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
3 December 2020 Ann Brashares I don’t have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I’ve been able to connect with a lot of people.
3 December 2020 Kevin Bacon Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.
3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you’re not sure what they got famous for.
3 December 2020 Penn Jillette Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
3 December 2020 Jill Scott When I first became famous, I didn’t know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn’t know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn’t know what to do with that.
3 December 2020 Fran Drescher Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.
3 December 2020 Shailene Woodley The F-word is ‘famous,’ the C-word is ‘celebrity’ and S-word is ‘star,’ in my book. The other three words are fine – you can say those. But ‘famous,’ ‘celebrity’ and ‘star,’ I think, are misused.
3 December 2020 Michael Cunningham I just don’t feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
3 December 2020 John Grisham Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.
3 December 2020 Carla Gugino For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
