I'm world famous everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly it would be a kind of defence.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop and 26 world championships.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Forget about being world famous it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity which is where I found myself for a large part of my life it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

For a time at least I was the most famous person in the entire world.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians and honestly they're the most open-minded nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.