The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

It is interesting because people assume that because I am famous I know all famous people.

I am doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who do not know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really is not suited to me.

I think it is useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I do be sitting here thinking I am keeping secrets, and wondering when you are going to find out.

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 did not know anyone unknown who did not become famous.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that is where I got famous.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That is what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You are a Big Boy Now.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I do think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.

The strangest part about being famous is you do not get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I certainly do not think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it is even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

People just assume that if you are famous, you are in Hollywood.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.