As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get do...
You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule ...
Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.
It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.
Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.
I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
Once you're famous you can't go back.
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
