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“It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?”
“I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.”
“I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'”
“A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.”
“Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.”
“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”
“I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.”
“It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.”
“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.”
“My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.”
“I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.”
“Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.”
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.”
“Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.”
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.”
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
