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famous

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. – Wesley Snipes

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. – Manolo Blahnik

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. – Bill Nighy

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. – Robert Caro

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. – Enya

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. – Van Morrison

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. – Robert De Niro

I literally was famous before I knew my own name. – Corey Feldman

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings. – Corey Feldman

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. – Liev Schreiber

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest. – Ruud van Nistelrooy

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. – Michelle Pfeiffer

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us. – Louise Brown

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. – Martin Yan

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart. – Johnny Knoxville

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. – Suzanne Farrell

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. – Elizabeth Olsen

I never wanted to be famous. – Dave Attell

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. – Eliza Dushku