I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.
Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.
I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.
Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.
