Famous Quotes
“Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.”
“I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.”
-- Vanessa Paradis
“There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.”
-- Tobey Maguire
“I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.”
-- Kristen Stewart
“Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.”
-- James Wolcott
“I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.”
-- Haruki Murakami
“Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.”
-- Larry Hagman
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
-- Lillian Hellman
“I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'”
-- Jason Reitman