I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone – we don’t have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don’t think I am famous.
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint – a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.
I’m largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they’re not necessarily hugely famous.
To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.
‘iNkaba’ has made me famous in the living rooms of the people of my country. It was almost like being famous all over again. People stop me in the street and shopping malls to take pictures.
When you’re doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.
I don’t feel famous.
They were all famous and fantastic fellows.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
For me, anytime I see a mother truly loving her child, famous or not, it brings a smile to my face. I think most people would agree.
Quite frankly, I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
People say, ‘Oh, you’re famous now, so you must go to L.A.’ – I don’t live in L.A. now – but it’s like, why wouldn’t you? The weather is amazing, the film industry’s there, it’s a great quality of life.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
I don’t feel famous.
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
Basically I have claimed legal entities for very famous people – they can’t even exist – which are Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Warren Edward Buffett. I own the legal entities they’re operating under. They know this.
And even though I’m famous, I still go through things that young people go through.
You don’t get to be in the squad unless you’re six feet tall, a supermodel, perfect, famous, and hot. That’s like hand selecting perfection, putting it into a group of girls, and saying, ‘Look how amazing we are.’
I don’t really know a lot of famous people. I’ve met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn’t come up to me and say, ‘Hi Dave!’
I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I’ll get girls and be famous.
