“There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.”

“In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.”

“Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.”

“The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.”

“You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.”

“I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.”

“I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.”

“I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.”

“I didn't get into skating to be famous.”

“Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.”

“I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.”

“Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.”

“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.”

“I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.”

“But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.”

“Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.”

“I love being famous. It's almost like being white.”

“I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.”

“I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.”

“The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.”

“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”