Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, `Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?` Actually, who...
Maryanne Williamson
I`m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don`t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don`t even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker
I`ve been making a list of the things they don`t teach you at school. They don`t teach you how to love somebody. They don`t teach you how to be famous. They don`t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don`t teach you how to walk away from someo...
Neil Gaiman
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry S. Truman
[on directing "Maximum Overdrive"] I didn`t get the job because I went to film school. I got the job because I`m Stephen King. If you become famous enough, they`ll let you hang yourself in Times Square with live TV coverage.
Stephen King
I did feel that I was in my mother`s shadow and that I was always trying to prove myself. I think the truth is, it`s you on the stage, it`s you on the screen, in the end. There are more children of famous people that you haven`t heard of...or they`re in r...
Blanche Baker
I think that, essentially, I`m a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing. So I`ve been trying to have my cake and eat it too - to have my character be famous yet still lead a normal life where I`m not trapped by fame and re...
Sacha Baron Cohen
I think that, essentially, I`m a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing. So I`ve been trying to have my cake and eat it too - to have my character be famous yet still lead a normal life where I`m not trapped by fame and re...
Sacha Baron Cohen
It`s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren`t the purpose of all this. No actor`s going to say, "I don`t want to be famous." But the main purpose for doing what I`m doing is the passion in the work.
Christopher Lambert
[on how she got her most famous role, Catwoman on "Batman" (1966)] I had lived in New York at the time on Beekman Place. I remember it was a weekend, Friday or Saturday, and my brother had come down from Harvard with five or six of his friends, and we wer...
Julie Newmar
On his twin sons: "Originally we were going to name the baby Andy, because I was doing a film about Andy Kaufman. Then we learned we were having twins, and we said, OK, it will be Andy and Tony, after Andy`s famous character, Tony Clifton. But then my son...
Milos Forman
I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I`d make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid. Eventually I smoked Havanas. A cigar makers` organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I don`t know if that`s t...
Groucho Marx
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.
Matt Damon
I`ve always liked women. But I don`t want somebody who likes me because I`m famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.
Edward Furlong
I did become quite well known from "Four Weddings", and it helped hugely. I wasn`t as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work. I couldn`t complain. It got me jobs in the theatre. I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays and...
Anna Chancellor
There`s this sense that of course you want to be famous. When you`re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it`s very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
[interview on her 50th birthday, London Times, Sept. 28, 1984] I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot