I know really really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV I didn't want to be famous I didn't want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags or go out with cute guys from shows or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

The people I want are very famous and very rich and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

You know one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I think in the end when you're famous people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious say-whatever's-on-her-mind intimidating person. And that's part of my personality but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous and you're not sure what they got famous for.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird but it's an honour really when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

I've had to deal a lot with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors but really any famous people.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly it would be a kind of defence.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course as we all know from fairy stories when you achieve that ambition you find out you don't want it.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers I think take a long time to unfold.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Fact is famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.