I’m like a unicorn; I’m a midlist writer who hasn’t done anything else but write. But because I wasn’t amazingly famous, I didn’t become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris. – Gabrielle Zevin
In fact, I’d just like to own something. Everyone thinks I’m glamorous, rich and famous but all I’ve got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW. – Dido Armstrong
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast – Mississippi, Alabama and so on. – Gregory Benford
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder – it’s almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking theory of natural selection. – Mark Carwardine
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn’t. – Noel Gallagher
‘Ali’ offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri. – Elvis Mitchell
I just don’t want to be famous. I feel like there’s a lot of sacrifice in that I’m not really willing to make. – Missy Peregrym
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’ – Francis Ford Coppola
When you work with actors, what you’re hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. – Domhnall Gleeson
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I’m not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. – Eberhard Weber
I’m astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous. – Danielle Steel
It’s not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey. – Eric Heiden
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. – Norman Davies
I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ magazine. – Peter Jackson