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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it is what my children call my dead author wall. I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I do been in.

When you are famous, you do not get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you do not see the real people.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Popstars really draws you in. It is fascinating. It is interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It is the Real World, only better.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I am dead.

It is funny to be discovered by a lot of people who did not know you before. People always used to say, Do you shop at Home Depot? or Does your kid go to such and such school? They want to know why they know me, even if they do not know my name. I do not think that is a bad thing, by the way I think it is nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

I was not a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I love meeting famous people. I am even happy just looking at them.

It is every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She is the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I am very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I am still dazed that she is gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

It was not not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I am still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I have got more to give than I ever have.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you did not have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that is what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records Does not change a thing.

I am famous. That is my job.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you are trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I have not paid for anything since I became famous.