The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

I do die if I was Madonna. I do die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I do not know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.

Sometimes you are famous before you are good.

You know, I am a television personality. It is not like I am a famous hooker or something!

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from Dumb and Dumber or whatever movie they liked. And that is fine, it gets them in the door, but then it is my job to give them something different.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

I keep saying I am not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I am a bit jealous. Until two days ago someone told me I am the most famous Korean in the world.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I am going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

I actually do not know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I do not think having a famous father affected him much.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing Othello at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous As You Like It and Company at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.