The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those or both as some people do when they get famous that's when the mental illness arrives.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office ' but really all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is like Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We the viewing public did by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A. and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is and I ended up making a lot of friends there and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also I think when you're famous its hard to live in a small town.

The fire in the belly is essential otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.