“I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.”

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.”

“The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.”

“Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.”

“I love being famous - it's phenomenal.”

“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.”

“I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.”

“Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.”

“In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.”

“The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.”

“I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.”

“Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.”

“I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.”

“I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.”

“No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.”

“I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.”

“I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.”

“There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.”

“When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.”