Famous Quotes
“As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.”
“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.”
-- James Ellroy
“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”
-- Nicholas Sparks
“I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.”
-- Robert Smith
“One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.”
-- Aubrey O'Day
“Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.”
-- Ellen Page
“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe