When I came to New York I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

OK so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean it's kind of a poster child for flops.

I got out of autobiography because my story is I was famous it was hard for me I got into therapy. I had trouble with food I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played in terms of message discipline in terms of access for reporters and especially in the way that sources and subjects especially famous subjects treat the media almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous I think.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place because those people generally don't know what it's like.

I can deal with it now but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age period.

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me I want to be a creative actress.

Normally I name my characters after famous comedians.

I don't care how famous a guitarist is he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go something to mash up but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings but I think they are a little puzzled by this.