Russell Hammond: I never said I was a golden god... or did I?
Ben Fong-Torres: You're not there to party. We've already got *one* Hunter Thompson.
Estrella Starr: [about Penny Lane] She used to run a school for Band-Aids.
is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried bur...
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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.
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
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.'
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
