The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.
