Padgett Powell Quotes

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.

I wanted to be famous and I wanted to make a fortune, and I've done that.

I've had some messages from some famous people which have been so unreal that they know who I am. I had support from Paloma Faith, Luke Evans, Stevie van Zandt, Jojo Siwa and Sharon Stone. It was amazing that so many big names had been talking about me.

I mean if anyone's comfortable being famous, they're a psychopath.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

That's what fame is: solitude.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.