“I became famous almost before I had a craft.”

“But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.”

“You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.”

“The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.”

“Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.”

“It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.”

“Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.”

“I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.”

“It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.”

“I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.”

“I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.”

“I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.”

“In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!”

“When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.”

“I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.”

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

“I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.”

“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”

“I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.”

“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”

“I got the famous Oprah hug!”