Cameron Russell Quotes

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.

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

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.