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There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.
In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
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