Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the co...
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.
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.
After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
I don't like the idea of famous people.
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about ...
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandabl...
