I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Just because you're not famous doesn't mean you're not good.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

My hair was famous before I was.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those or both as some people do when they get famous that's when the mental illness arrives.

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.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office ' but really all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is like Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We the viewing public did by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A. and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is and I ended up making a lot of friends there and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also I think when you're famous its hard to live in a small town.

The fire in the belly is essential otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous but I didn't really know what that entailed.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard wearing dark specs and a white suit waving like the Queen Mum.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.