Once you become famous there is nothing left to become but infamous.

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.

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

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

I think in the end when you're famous people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious say-whatever's-on-her-mind intimidating person. And that's part of my personality but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon or more famous or richer.

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

Now we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed to put students first so that America can compete that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

The fire in the belly is essential otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Because you know when you first become famous you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

In the sixties everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

When you become famous being famous becomes your profession.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous you end up with a 24-hour job.

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

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.