The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
I’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
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.
My being some kind of celebrity – not a real celebrity, isn’t a welcome part of the job.
A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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.
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don’t-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
I’ve always have loved reality programmes. ‘Big Brother,’ ‘I’m A Celebrity,’ they’re my guilty pleasure.
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time.
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.
What is the use in being a celebrity if you can’t use the platform to help?
What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.
People don’t want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That’s why comedy writers do well – we put out little funny ideas.
I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.
There isn’t much point in the whole ‘celebrity’ nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.
As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.
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.
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna’s. She has the most incredible physique – and the woman’s in her 50s!
I don’t consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.
