“Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.”

“You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.”

“There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.”

“Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.”

“It was never about winning medals or being famous.”

“When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.”

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”

“At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.”

“We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!”

“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.”

“I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.”

“And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.”

“You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.”

“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”

“When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.”

“When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”

“I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.”

“I never thought about being famous.”

“I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.”

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

“I do not like being famous. I like being normal.”