“I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.”

“As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.”

“The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.”

“Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.”

“I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.”

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

“Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.”

“There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.”

“Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.”

“I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'”

“In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.”

“I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'”

“Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.”

“When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.”

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

“You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.”

“Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.”

“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”

“It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.”

“I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.”

“I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.”