It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress but it's all about not limiting myself such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I don't want to be famous per se but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Celebrity culture it's everywhere isn't it? It's reality TV Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room which he was famous for doing as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

The seven wise men of Greece so famous for their wisdom all the world over acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

I like photographing the people I love the people I admire the famous and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I'm not unknown yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen who was a very famous movie star at the time but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles riding around in the desert he was like a second father.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I used to think no one should go into show biz but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public it's just that's my way of expressing myself and I happen to be very famous.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday the first of the month at this port of San Diego truly a fine one and not without reason called famous.

In Germany I am not so famous.

In approaching our subject it will be best without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama to start directly from the facts and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.