I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked Hudson Hawk.

I do not ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after East Is East and Bend It.

It is been real weird. It was not how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I am gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I am going to be famous!

I am not cut out to be a famous person I can not do my hair and makeup well enough.

There is always going to be that pressure when you are in front of the camera. When you are famous it is just an extreme version of reality and there is a pressure to look a certain way.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

I do not really know a lot of famous people. I have met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, Hi Dave!

It is not like I am the most famous person in the world.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I do definitely rather be rich than famous.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

These days, with American Idol and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

I do not do the whole, Put my name on it, make me famous thing.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.