"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 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." "I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry." More In Famous "For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world."― Jesse Owens "Being in ‘Us Weekly’ does not make you famous."― Bradley Cooper "How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"― Jean-Jacques Rousseau