3 December 2020 Kim Shaw Everyone always asks me, ‘Do you want to be famous… ‘ I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.
3 December 2020 Sarah Polley It’s not that I don’t want to become famous or that I’m obsessed by my work as an actress, but it’s all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.
3 December 2020 Shania Twain I certainly don’t think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it’s even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
3 December 2020 Rachel Hunter But things move in circles: one minute it’s the models who are famous, then it’s the actresses, then it’s the designers.
3 December 2020 Ed Westwick I don’t come from a famous family and don’t have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I’m just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
3 December 2020 Haywood Nelson Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I’m going to be famous some day.
3 December 2020 Andrew Coyle Bradley In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
3 December 2020 Samantha Fox All my life, it’s been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
3 December 2020 Wynonna Judd My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
3 December 2020 Phil Collen The big thing that everyone forgets, you’re famous and on TV and everything, but I think there’s something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
3 December 2020 Van Morrison I’d love to live in Ireland but I’d like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don’t understand – I lived there before I was famous.
3 December 2020 Cass Elliot When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.
3 December 2020 Jenna Fischer Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
3 December 2020 Izabella Scorupco I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
3 December 2020 Luigi Barzini They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
3 December 2020 Colin Hay I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years – you’ve got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that’s what I’ve been doing.
3 December 2020 Dirk Benedict Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
3 December 2020 Elisha Cuthbert Some of the things I’ve seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive – I’ve seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things… like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Paradis People don’t get through to the essence of you right away – it’s always the famous ‘girl’ or the famous ‘girlfriend’. I’d rather be known for myself.
3 December 2020 Robert Caro I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Grey Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who’s been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.
3 December 2020 Bruno Tonioli It’s horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you’re not famous or rich, you’re not acceptable.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.
3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said ‘if you ever get a second chance for something, you’ve got to go all the way.’
