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The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
Terry Gross

Great, Character, Person

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire

Work, Family, Money

The world's most famous and popular language is music.
PSY

Music, Language, Popular

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
Ken Follet

Give, Honest, Read

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.
Aubrey O'Day

Important, Reality, Same

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
Miranda Otto

Time, Big, Door

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
Matthew Modine

Path, Rich, Wanted

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Best, Path, Start

In Germany I am not so famous.
Hans Berger

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
Junipero Serra

God, Before, Reason

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'
Heather Morris

Life, Wanted, Found

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
Lily Allen

Person, Happen, Public

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

Good, Goal, Working

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
Julia Sweeney

Life, Money, Great

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Nikki Cox

Girl, Wrong, Else

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
Sherry Stringfield

Crazy, Important, Friends

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Nikki Cox

Else, Anyone, Places

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
Chuck Zito

Down, Thought, Another

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barry Zito

Successful, Someone, Person

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
Herb Ritts

Time, Great, Fun

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

Bad, Hard, Hair

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.
Justin Guarini

Unknown, Anywhere, Super

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Helmut Newton

Love, Last, Admire

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
James D'arcy

Rich, Actor, Force

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South

Men, Wisdom, Wise

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