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I kept saying that I do never live in L.A., and I did not think I would. But that is where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you are famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

I have a great job writing for The Office, but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I will put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I know I am not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I am not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that is when the mental illness arrives.

I know it is a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I do not believe anybody wants to be famous.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

I do not go to premieres. I do not go to parties. I do not covet the Oscar. I do not want any of that. I do not go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that is a whole other career. And I have not got any energy for it.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

My hair was famous before I was.

I am English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

Just because you are not famous, Does not mean you are not good.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They are not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After Juno I thought: I think I have defined myself enough as my own director that I do love to work with my father.

I have been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, What's your advice? first I say, Be born the son of a famous director. It is invaluable.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they are beautiful and famous and rich. I am like, Oh my God, I do be dead.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers do not teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.