I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll 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.
There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
I will never forget when we performed at the Tokyo Dome. Growing up, I was told that only A-list famous musicians are invited to perform at that venue.
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
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.
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
When you're very famous, very young, there's that little thing of, 'Are they being nice to me because they think I'm a nice person? Or is it because they want to tell their friends 'Guess who I was with last night?'
After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
I will either be famous or infamous.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.