I became very famous as a teenager and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life so I wanted to live larger than life and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

Sometimes people offer you plays they offer you parts but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Dates with actors finally just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became the more I narrowed down my choices.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I thought the more famous I became the more friendships I would have but the opposite was true.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that I was just interested in the concepts involved.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Yeah I love being famous. It's almost like being white y'know?

Forget about being world famous it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

There is a misleading unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous very old or Greek then it must be good advice.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous then run down the street naked you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood then play play play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I served the famous professors and scholars and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.