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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

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.

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.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

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.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.