None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
Sullen Warder: How did you get so famous then, eh? Alfred Borden: Magic.
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
Russell Hammond: [upon entering William's bedroom] So... This is where the enemy sleeps.
Jeff Bebe: It's like you saying you like "Fever Dog" - *That* is the fucking buzz!
Russell Hammond: I'm telling secrets to the one guy you don't tell secrets to.
Sapphire: Just think, any other city in the world and you'd still be a virgin.
