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" If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye. "

Katherine Waterston

People

Teen

Smile

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" I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. "

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" These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move. "

" As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. "

" Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks. "

" I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. "

" Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. "

" I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. "

" Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. "

" I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking. "

" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "

" Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. "

" At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. "

" I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. "

" Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy. "

" I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. "

" Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation. "

" I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous. "

Christopher Parker

Famous

Emotions

" 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. "

" A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

Worth

Celebrity

" I did not wake up one day and say, 'I wanna be famous.' I did not wake up and say, 'I wanna be a UFC fighter.' I woke up and said, 'I want to be successful at something I want to do. I want to fight.' "

" I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous? "

" Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. "

" In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. "

" Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "

" I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! "

Bruce Dickinson

Myself