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None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

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.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.