I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

—Victor Hugo

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

—Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves.

—Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

—Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God.

—Victor Hugo

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

—Salma Hayek

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

—Jessica Alba

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

—J. K. Rowling

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

—Dave Kellett