Famous Quotes
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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I describe it as anti-profiling. It's not that I want certain people profiled – I just want us to admit that certain people require less scrutiny, and Jerry Seinfeld is one. When you see a famous celebrity go through security, treated as though he may just have become a jihadist when no one was watching… It's crazy. It is security theatre.
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Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
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Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
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Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
