“The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.”

“I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!”

“The F-word is 'famous,' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star,' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous,' 'celebrity' and 'star,' I think, are misused.”

“I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'”

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”

“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'”

“Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”

“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”

“Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.”

“I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.”

“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.”

“I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.”

“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.”

“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

“You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.”

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

“I don't feel famous.”

“I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.”

“I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'”

“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”

“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”