Top 60 Quotes About Celebrity Themselves
#1. Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
Alison Jackson
#2. I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.
Alison Jackson
#3. 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
#4. Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.
Dan Lauria
#5. 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
#6. I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
Ricky Gervais
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.
Mark David Chapman
#12. If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.
Jennifer Lawrence
#13. 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
#14. I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.
Ruth Rendell
#15. Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
Mal Fletcher
#16. Celebrity is currency, it's a good bargaining tool. It helps you get better service.
Jason Donovan
#17. I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.
Horace Walpole
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
Jeffrey Deitch
#22. I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.
Jimmy Carr
#23. 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
#24. Rather than a situation where people are naturally finding themselves reading the same thing and then talking about it, some readers are responding to celebrity in the hope that what they read will enable them to join an international conversation.
Tim Parks
#25. I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.
Scott Adsit
#26. Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.
Ryu Murakami
#27. I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
Gaby Hoffmann
#28. I wonder why the celebrities remodel themselves with plastic and then proclaim in ads to be ourselves! Well hellooo... Nice example
Gayathri Jayakumar
#29. I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us.
Jade Jagger
#30. To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#31. People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Vanna Bonta
#32. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
Shia Labeouf
#33. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. 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
#35. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
Erykah Badu
#36. I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Roger Ebert
#37. I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
Phil Donahue
#38. 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
#39. By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.
Paul Gillin
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
Aidan Quinn
#44. I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.
Martin Henderson
#45. 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
#46. A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
Elle Macpherson
#47. I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.
Jackie Chan
#48. Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly.
Matt Wallace
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.
Matt Tong
#52. Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive
Dean Cavanagh
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
