#famous

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part. ↗

— Lily Collins

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing. ↗

— Macy Gray

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My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. ↗

— Shirley Knight

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Andy Warhol made fame more famous. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

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Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out. ↗

— Guy Pearce

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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

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

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