Quotes About Celebrity

#1. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Erykah Badu

#4. I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert

#5. I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Phil Donahue

#6. 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

#7. By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.

Paul Gillin

#8. I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

Lesley Nicol

#9. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

Richard Gere

#10. 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

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

Aidan Quinn

#12. I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

Martin Henderson

#13. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.

Heather Marsh

#14. A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

Elle Macpherson

#15. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Shia Labeouf

#16. Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly.

Matt Wallace

#17. 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

#18. There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

Matt Tong

#20. Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive

Dean Cavanagh

#21. I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

Jabari Asim

#22. If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.

Adam Levine

#23. The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Donald Trump

#24. I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

Debra Messing

#25. Celebrity is very weird.

Javier Bardem

#26. I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

Diablo Cody

#27. 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

#28. I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Michael Redhill

#29. I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.

Jackie Chan

#30. Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.

Dan Lauria

#31. Celebrity is currency, it's a good bargaining tool. It helps you get better service.

Jason Donovan

#32. Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Mal Fletcher

#33. I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.

Ruth Rendell

#34. The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

Dennis Christopher

#35. If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.

Jennifer Lawrence

#36. I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

Mark David Chapman

#37. I belong to the highest class there is: I'm a third generation celebrity. My grandfather, father, and I have all been on the cover of Time. That's all there is. You can't go any higher in America.

Gore Vidal

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

#39. After Donald Trump's derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially cancelled Celebrity Apprentice. Think about it: Donald Trump isn't even president yet, and he's already made America a better place!

Conan O'Brien

#40. For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

Armistead Maupin

#41. I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

Ricky Gervais

#42. As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.

Mike Nichols

#43. I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible, but this is different than wanting personal, "celebrity"-like attention. I'm very introverted and sensitive and dislike being talked about, positively or negatively.

Marie Calloway

#44. I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

Sam Neill

#45. We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals.

Bianca Frazier

#46. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Daphne Guinness

#47. If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

Tyra Banks

#48. Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

Stella Vine

#49. My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.

Peter Carey

#50. What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

Juliet Asante

#51. I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.

Eva Mendes

#52. The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?

Rajneesh

#53. 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

#54. If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

David Brooks

#55. 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

#56. People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.

Katie Price

#57. I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Julie Christie

#58. I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Denzel Washington

#59. 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

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

Lord Byron

#61. I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Alan Moore

#62. I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

Billy Williams

#63. It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

Jeff Beck

#64. Whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.

Merrill Markoe

#65. 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

#66. George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

Bailey Chase

#67. I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

Martin Milner

#68. I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.

Stacie Orrico

#69. To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

Judith Light

#70. 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

#71. Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Philip Treacy

#72. If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood ... Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

Pat Sajak

#73. I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

Ali MacGraw

#74. For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Debi Mazar

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

Kendra Wilkinson

#76. 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

#77. I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#78. I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

Amber Riley

#79. I want to find a designer that can represent me. I want to find a celebrity that reflects me.
So far I've been dressing in cotton-polyester blends.
It's what Jerffrey Dahmer wore.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#80. I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Michael Franti

#81. Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Carrie Fisher

#82. One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

Holly Johnson

#83. Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Justin Vernon

#84. You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Tucker Max

#85. I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

#86. 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

#87. I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Hilary Liftin

#88. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Kanye West

#89. All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

Matt Damon

#90. I never have celebrity crushes.

Samantha Barks

#91. Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#92. I don't like being a celebrity.

Alain Ducasse

#93. The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#94. Celebrity Retrieval? I've never heard of them."
"They're a kind of private Blackwater.

Laura Castoro

#95. One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.

Joseph Campbell

#96. I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Charley Pride

#97. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#98. In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Paulo Coelho

#99. I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

Maria Bamford

#100. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.

Nolan North