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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
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"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
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"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
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"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"
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"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."
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"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."
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"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."
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"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
Writing
"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."
Society
"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."
Humor
"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."
Crime
"As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it."
Science
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
Technology
"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."
Science
"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."
Science
"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted."
Exploration
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
Economy
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