We’ve actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it’s really this Malala one that’s catching people’s attention.
Mustard oil is not popular in Kerala at all. We have coconut oil and refined oil. I’ve tried some sweets and, of course, the famous fish, hilsa! I have a cook here with me, so he made it in our style.
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
I’ve met some of the most famous celebrities in the world but Michael Phelps was the first person I’ve ever met with whom I was totally star-struck.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
When I go to Atlanta, I’m famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they’re watching every show, and if you’re black, you famous.
To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
I don’t want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.
I’m not motivated to be famous. I’m motivated to be successful. To reach people, I’ve got to get on TV, I’ve got to get in with the government, I’ve got to get on TV abroad.
Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.
No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it’s nice seeing people in moments when they’re just being themselves.
I don’t really think reviewing music is something you’re going to get famous doing overnight.
I love singing – singing is what I’m famous for doing. Now it’s turned into things I am famous for doing – like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
Everyone always asks me, ‘Do you want to be famous… ’ I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.
Being in ‘Us Weekly’ does not make you famous.
I’m not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
There’s a panic, a rush, to this ‘achievement’ of fame. There’s also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.
Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you’re famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
I don’t feel famous.
The Band was always famous for its retirements; we’d go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
Some people can’t sing – like honestly – but they’re famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don’t try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
I have never wanted to be famous, as such – fame is a by-product.
I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn’t until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
