“Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.”

“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.”

“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”

“If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.”

“My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!”

“I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”

“I was famous from birth.”

“Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.”

“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.”

“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”

“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.”

“I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.”

“Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.”

“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”

“Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.”

“I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'”

“It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.”

“I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.”

“First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.”

“Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.”

“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.”