I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. Bill Nighy
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Michael Morpurgo
I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' Samuel L. Jackson
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Alexander McCall Smith
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. Danielle Steel
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. Danielle Steel
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. Robert Caro
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. Enya
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. Van Morrison
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. Van Morrison
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. Robert Morgan
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. Robert De Niro
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level. Kylie Minogue
I literally was famous before I knew my own name. Corey Feldman
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings. Corey Feldman
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous. Samantha Morton
I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that. Jo Nesbo
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. Liev Schreiber
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave. Elizabeth Hurley