Once you're famous you can't go back.

I get recognized but I'm not really a famous famous.

I never wanted to be famous.

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

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

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist especially now that his friend and rival for the title Christopher Hitchens has now gone to meet his Maker.

I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous which was a bit of a disaster.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great how famous or successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause.

I'm world famous everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

That the work involved the willingness to take chances the commitment the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy was more important than becoming famous or even what I was dancing.

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.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success talent.

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer like Diana Ross or Donna Summer or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys when they get a little famous just give up their stand-up career and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance a constraint than just letting yourself be free.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Face it I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business but my family keeps me grounded.

I don't want to end up being a circus act doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really really bad things... like the FBI should be contacted immediately.

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling just like us.