Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
I'd had people say 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
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 never wanted to be the most famous the most beautiful the most extravagant.
Luckily I think I never really wanted to be famous I just wanted to make movies.
I have never wanted to be famous as such - fame is a by-product.
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon or more famous or richer.
I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers I think take a long time to unfold.
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve and the Germans French and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer in German which I never have so I am really excited about that.
I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We the viewing public did by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
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.
I would have been very happy just working from job to job paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
I never pursued being 'famous.'
Whenever you're the child of a famous person you get judged in odd ways because of that.
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous and I never dreamt I would be famous.
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.