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.
Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director’s eyes, you ‘get it right’ does not allow for very much creative freedom… In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
Back in the 1980s, the ‘News of the World’ had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana’s volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
So, I didn’t get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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.
You know, I never really thought of myself as a ‘celebrity.’ One of the titles that I like least is ‘celebrity chef.’
You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That’s the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn’t mean you’re a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.
I didn’t want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it’s not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
I don’t think I’m a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.
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.
People know me. I’m not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I’m not going to belong on Comedy Central. I’ll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
I really worry about the way in which you, as a celebrity, are disproportionately treated. Frankly, the industry is almost single-handedly designed to interfere with people’s moral chemistry.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You’re actually in a better position if you’re a celebrity because people care.
I think that the stigmas against model-actresses – and even just, like, entertainer, celebrity chef, and musician – those kinds of walls have been broken down, and you can do multiple things. So while I can, I don’t see why I would stop.
Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it’s all designed to sell advertising space.
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
Kellan Gillis was the first celebrity that I worked with – that didn’t hurt. Working out after that with Jennifer Lopez was huge in terms of just the platform it gives you. So I think when you get those opportunities, you have to be respectful of them, and you have to try not to just cash out.
I don’t need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I’m happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I’m happy my day is done. It’s over.
Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
But when you’re a celebrity, you discover that you’re no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That’s one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
There is no good side to celebrity.
One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.
I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
And people say it all the time: ‘You’re a celebrity.’ No, I’m an actor. I’m a producer. I’m a director. I’m a toad. I’m roadkill. I’m anything but a celebrity.
I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.
It’s interesting when people make comments about celebrities’ weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they’re a medical professional that’s treating that celebrity. Like, ‘This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.’ If you don’t treat her, then how do you know?
Celebrity has lost its value – all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don’t think that I’m a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That’s more comfortable.
I think that ‘celebrity’ and ‘chef’ should be a permanent oxymoron.
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard – I don’t like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
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.
I never should have done ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ I didn’t want to do it because I didn’t want Donald Trump to say, ‘You’re fired.’
I’m a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
It’s tough for those celebrity couples. It’s really hard. My wife wasn’t in the limelight, which made it easier… the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.
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.
Do I think it’s great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don’t? No. But do I think we’ll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.
There’s so much focus on celebrity these days; we’re in the Kardashian era, and it’s slightly scary.
The term ‘celebrity memoir’ has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
I’m not a celebrity. I don’t call myself a celebrity. I’m an actor.
Celebrity culture is… it’s not something that I’m attracted to. I guess I don’t think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I’m at the far periphery of that.
I’m not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay attention from time to time.
Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I’m just me – their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they’re older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.
No one can tell you the rules of ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.
I founded ‘Point Hope’ so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children who had no one to advocate for them, children who had no voice. Since I have been blessed with a voice on the radio each night, I thought I would use my celebrity position and my financial resources to help these kids.
Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
I’m working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They’re two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it’s shifted.
I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.
I’m not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I’m interested in the perception of the celebrity.
One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
