“When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.”

“It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.”

“Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.”

“I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.”

“Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.”

“If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.”

“Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.”

“Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.”

“You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.”

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”

“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.”

“For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.”

“Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.”

“I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.”

“In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'”

“It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.”

“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”

“I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's 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're famous, its hard to live in a small town.”

“Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.”

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

“I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.”