Famous Celebrity Quotes

#1. I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.

Nathan Fillion

#2. I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

Dylan Moran

#3. If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. 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

#5. And why would it? Ellie lied to me, because she knew I would come home to be with her. She selflessly gave me up so I could have everything, when the truth is, now I have nothing.

Heather Leigh

#6. Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. 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

#8. All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

Russell Banks

#9. Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases ... I don't know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant's heart,' I thought.

Gavin MacLeod

#10. I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Adele

#12. Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#13. I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Enya

#14. I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noomi Rapace

#15. The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anderson Cooper

#16. There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

#17. It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Bill Bryson

#18. Fame cannot teach game.

Habeeb Akande

#19. Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.

Robert DeCoteau

#20. A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

Heathcote Williams

#21. This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

Thomas Sangster

#23. When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

Megan Fox

#24. I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

Sean Maguire

#25. Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

#26. Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Maureen Dowd

#27. A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

Tom Hollander

#29. When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Agnetha Faltskog

#30. I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.

Stefano Gabbana

#31. In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

#32. Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

A.A. Gill

#33. I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.

Julie Warner

#34. I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

Cher

#35. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#36. I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

Jasper Carrott

#37. In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

Tom Shales

#38. Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

David Hasselhoff

#39. He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true - but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway.

Simon Van Booy

#40. I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#41. When you become a celebrity, your shit becomes news.

M.F. Moonzajer

#42. 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

#43. We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

Nick Clegg

#44. I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Marianne Williamson

#45. It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

Andy Samberg

#46. You're so beautiful," he says, dragging his hands through my hair. When our mouths meet, it's less desperate, less frantic than before, because we know we have all the time in the world in front of us. No more roadblocks, no more missed opportunities, our future starts now, together.

Heather Leigh

#47. I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

America Ferrera

#48. Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Al Goldstein

#49. I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

#50. I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

Kendra Wilkinson

#51. Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

C. Wright Mills

#52. Alright, but I don't like this at all Syd. But I trust you. If you say you're not upset, then I'll let it go, for now. Just understand that I won't let anything or anyone hurt you, not even me.

Relatively Famous

Heather Leigh

#53. A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Byron

#54. The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#55. Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Ryan Giggs

#56. Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Aidan Quinn

#57. I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

Lady Gaga

#58. I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

Marianne Williamson

#59. I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Russell Crowe

#60. It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

Willie Geist

#61. Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

Oksana Baiul

#62. There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Andrew Clements

#63. Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

Jenna Fischer

#64. Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!

I.B. Nosey

#65. Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Nicolas Chamfort

#66. I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Moses Malone

#67. I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Adrian Grenier

#68. It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

Winona Ryder

#69. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#70. Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

#71. I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

Adam Sandler

#72. People think that it's fun to meet celebrities - but what do you mean by "celebrity"? Someone you recognise? What are they famous for? It's people who've done something that are exciting.

Ricky Gervais

#73. A celebrity is someone famous for being well known

Morris Fishbein

#74. You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Lady Gaga