I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult – it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
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.
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.
The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don’t need them to know about you – you need them to know about your work.
I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don’t think I’m a celebrity myself.
There’s this misconception out there that at any level of celebrity, you have someone to do hair and makeup when you’re out touring, but no, it is just not the case. I do it all myself.
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
I did not try to conform to anybody’s ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I’ve done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I’m probably the realest person you’ll ever meet.
The whole celebrity thing is not something I’m overly interested in. I don’t pop up at parties. It’s just not my thing.
Kmart’s as much a part of my history as ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Twenty-five years! It’s not just a celebrity brand.
People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don’t care who they are. I don’t quantify people by celebrity.
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don’t think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate – at least as far as possible – from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
It doesn’t matter if you’re famous or infamous. All that matters is you’re a celebrity.
Just because I am a celebrity doesn’t mean I can’t say, ‘Sorry.’
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don’t know what’s going on.
Of course, nobody’s tearing my door down. If you’re successful you’re going to intimidate and scare off the people you’d like to spend time with. They’re not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice – in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.
My feeling is, if you’re going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It’s better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it’s not remotely mysterious. But there’s something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.
I did ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and ‘Celebrity MasterChef.’ I was quite good at those, and did a cookbook.
Persistence is half the battle. That’s what I love about independent movies. They don’t have to be made. There’s no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like ‘Batman’ or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.
My first-ever celebrity crush was Val Kilmer from ‘Top Secret!’ Not his biggest film, but I remember loving him in that movie.
I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us – like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight – we didn’t give into this new wave of celebrity.
Honestly, man, I’m not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.
I want to be an artist. I don’t want to be a celebrity.
I don’t mean that if you’re a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
I’ve been asked to do ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that – but I don’t want to put my career on hold. I’d have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it’s something I’d think about after it’s all ended.
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.
Emma wasn’t bothered about the fact that I was a ‘celebrity’, held in high esteem by millions of cricket fans around the world. As far as she was concerned, I was just her dad, and she believed that role should take priority over anything else.
I don’t consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who’ve been in the game for years… they’re like, ‘Man, I’m trying to get on your level.’
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.
When I decided to do ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,’ there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
There’s a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means.
Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
Celebrity is very weird.
I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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.
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.
It’s really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, ‘Why can’t I lose weight when I’ve had a baby?’ Well, everyone you’re reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn’t make it realistic.
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That’s why it’s my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
It’s not about giving back if you’re successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it’s about your responsibility as an adult to help others.
