“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.”