I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways it was everything I ever wanted but when it happened all I felt was total paralysing fear.

More than anything else my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young sexy and available. She was all that and more. She had big blue eyes alabaster skin a heart-shaped face a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

I wanted to be a rich famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

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

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

When I started on MySpace people wanted to support me but once I rose to fame with the MTV show they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous I would have stuck with hockey.

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.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers if they lived alone they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

When I first became famous I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler and I didn't know what to do with that.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Well I knew I wanted to be an actor and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

If I wanted to be famous I could have been famous before.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I never wanted to be famous.

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

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power because democracy shapes our lives.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV I didn't want to be famous I didn't want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags or go out with cute guys from shows or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.