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"If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic."
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"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal."

"But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way."

"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."

"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."

"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."

"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."

"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."

"I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy."
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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."

"When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars."

"The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you."

"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."

"I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution."

"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day."

"An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing."
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