Famous Quotes

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

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.

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.