"I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law." ― Stephen Colbert Topic(s): Famous More From Stephen Colbert "No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close." "I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry." "I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way." More In Famous "Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."― Don Johnson "I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous."― Alison Lohman "The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."― Leland Stanford