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

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

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.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

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

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

What I have learned is that you really do not need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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

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

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

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 Does not matter to me. I think there is a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

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

I am more interested in being good than being famous.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

I love being famous. It is almost like being white.

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.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I am famous.

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.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you do not want to stand out. You do not want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I am a product of nepotism. That is how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Whenever you are the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.