I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
I was famous from birth.
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.