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.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
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.
The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.
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.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
