Top 100 Being A Celebrity Quotes
#1. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Toby Young
#2. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey
#3. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.
Johnny Depp
#4. I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.
Ruth Rendell
#5. I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.
Jasmine Tookes
#6. Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.
Jake Owen
#7. I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
Denzel Washington
#8. There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
Damian Lewis
#9. I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.
Jess Walter
#10. I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.
Michelle Gomez
#12. Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
Robert Redford
#13. I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#14. The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange
Tom Hiddleston
#15. This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
Nick Moran
#16. I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.
Faith Evans
#17. Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.
Barbra Streisand
#18. Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
Carson Kressley
#19. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
#20. One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
DMX
#21. I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.
Michelle Gomez
#22. The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
Robert M. Pirsig
#23. I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
America Ferrera
#24. My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
Jimmy Wales
#25. I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press ... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.
Stephen Colletti
#26. I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
A.R. Rahman
#27. To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.
David Chang
#28. I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
Nadine Velazquez
#30. I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.
Amy Winehouse
#31. We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
Mandy Moore
#32. For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
Christian Siriano
#33. Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
Flea
#34. The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.
Michael Houbrick
#35. I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
Jerry Spinelli
#36. One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.
Park Dietz
#37. I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
Megan Fox
#38. My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
Mr. T
#40. Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
Kate Hudson
#41. I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
Erykah Badu
#42. The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.
Jason Alexander
#43. I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.
Jim Gaffigan
#44. I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric
#45. There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.
Peter Dinklage
#46. Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
Hayden Christensen
#47. Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#48. Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Meagan Good
#49. I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.
James Corden
#50. I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.
Nina Jacobson
#51. I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'
Ryan Giggs
#52. Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
Elisha Cuthbert
#53. The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.
Joe Perry
#54. Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients.
Brad Goreski
#55. Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt Disney
#56. The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
Tyra Banks
#57. The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
Jonny Lee Miller
#58. I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
Dan Aykroyd
#59. Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
Demi Moore
#60. It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#61. [Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words ... Really terrible.
Grumpy Cat
#62. I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
Bryan Adams
#63. Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
Barrett Foa
#64. There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.
Tim Daly
#65. It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
Lewis Black
#66. I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. I don't have that kind of cult [following].
John Sayles
#67. There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
Dennis Quaid
#68. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
Thomas Aquinas
#69. Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Meryl Streep
#70. I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
Daniel Baldwin
#71. Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
Tracey Gold
#72. I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
Noomi Rapace
#73. It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done ... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.
Brandon Adams
#74. Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
Linda Ronstadt
#75. I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
Armistead Maupin
#76. In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
David Hasselhoff
#77. Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
Damon Wayans
#78. Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.
Hill Harper
#79. I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.
Shawn Amos
#80. Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired.
Michael R. Burch
#81. A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#82. A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.
Caitlin Moran
#83. How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft
#84. I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization.
Stephen Baldwin
#85. That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
Joe Nichols
#86. Nadine found herself standing in front of a row of streaming faces, like waxworks of forgotten celebrities being melted down before coming back as more contemporary figures.
Pascal Garnier
#87. You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.
Carrie Fisher
#88. I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame ... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
Marc Almond
#89. The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.
George Hickenlooper
#90. It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
Kapil Dev
#91. I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
Jonah Hill
#92. Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
Jerry Seinfeld
#93. But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
Winona Ryder
#94. There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Raul Julia
#95. I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
Marina And The Diamonds
#96. There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.
Rocky Carroll
#97. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.
T.E. Lawrence
#98. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
#99. But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Hugh Grant
#100. Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
St. Jerome
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