“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.”

“I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.”

“I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.”

“A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.”