When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
I am thrilled to write ‘The Treasure Chest,’ and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!
When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.
Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.
I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I’ve gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
It doesn’t matter if you’re famous or infamous. All that matters is you’re a celebrity.
When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it’ll be a mix of those two things.
When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that’s not what’s driving me, so if it’s something I don’t want to do, I don’t do it. Maybe it’s stubborn, but any choices, if you don’t like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.
I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I’m mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.
I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that’s when the mental illness arrives.
I don’t have any interest in being in Warner Brothers’ newest comedy if it’s going to suck but still be a box office hit and make me famous. I want to do things that are cool and that I can be proud of.
Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.
I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.
I love that my music is connecting with people, but I don’t think there’ll be a point where I feel like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m famous now.’
I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn’t pan out!
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you’re pretentious like that, and you think you’ve planned everything perfectly, it’s then that everything goes in the opposite way.
You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
