Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn’t an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
Isn’t it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that’s it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
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?’
I don’t do shows. I don’t have reviews. I’m not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.
I want to be an artist. I don’t want to be a celebrity.
As long as you carry your makeup like you got it done by the biggest celebrity make artist, then everyone will see that.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We’d go to all the big names in Hollywood.
Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.
I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
I would like my celebrity to serve charity purposes, and to help people less well off.
I don’t want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.
The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions.
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it’s not what it’s cracked to be.
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.
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
If you lived next door to me and didn’t know what I did, you wouldn’t know I was a celebrity. I don’t have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.
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.
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room – 30 seconds of what’s going on in Syria – and when you’ve had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don’t know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn’t matter.
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.
I’m not a celebrity, I’ve kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.
Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy’s determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.
We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It’s a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early ‘X Factor’ rounds.
I don’t really see myself as a celebrity.
I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.
My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it’s my responsibility to make good use of it.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
In the Emperor’s New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide – to run away and hide.
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking’s comments. I said one shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
I feel like I almost didn’t grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn’t aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
There’s no reason that just because you’re a celebrity you can’t write.
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.
I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it’s here, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.
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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.
I loathe celebrity. I can’t stand it.
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?
Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that’s a great thing.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don’t care so much about image, about celebrity – you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
I feel the word ‘privacy’ is under threat, majorly. We are forgetting that a celebrity is also a human being.
Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I’m actively anti-celebrity.
Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it’s like a professional athlete training – she has to push harder.
I don’t consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be ‘Just Like Us?’ ‘Just Like Us’ means just as boring as we are.
No one’s forcing me or any other celebrity to take time out of their day to say ‘Hi’ to these fans or do these things. It’s just something we do nine times out of 10 because we love and appreciate our fans.
Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.
Being a celebrity, I don’t even have to talk.
The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in ‘A Better World’ isn’t ours, but it’s pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
