I was famous from birth.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons. . . some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
I play Edward G. Robinson [in Trumbo], who was a close friend and a co-worker of Dalton's [Trumbo]. They worked together on at least one or two screenplays. A lot of these stories take famous people and show you who they are behind the scenes, which is kind of fun. One of the things about getting to play Edward G. Robinson was learning who the man was away from his movie-star exterior.
I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
I hope everybody could get rich and famous.
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense. . . I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.
When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.