I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I’m not Terminator.
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
I don’t mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don’t like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.
The Baha’i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it’s being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn’t move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn’t about that. I just loved music.
By nature, I sit alone in a room and type… My goal was never celebrity.
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.
There’s so much focus on celebrity these days; we’re in the Kardashian era, and it’s slightly scary.
It’s not even about looking good; it’s about feeling good inside. Celebrity Sweat makes everyone aware of that but in a fun way with their favorite athletes.
It’s the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you’re able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
I’m very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
I think it’s important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.
I got offered loads of reality shows, including ‘I’m A Celebrity’ and ‘Celebrity Big Brother.’
The celebrity craze is a little much. But it’s good for me, so you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
I don’t have any friends and don’t have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they’re not really your friends. They’re only there because you’re a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
I like sort of esoteric and weird Twitter jokes. But I actually unfollow people if they make jokes about a celebrity’s death within the first two minutes of that celebrity dying.
I get double-takes at the hardware store. I’ve had people say, ‘I didn’t know you did this.’ With a celebrity, if folks don’t see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.
I was a grown-up when ‘celebrity’ happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn’t like that; I don’t want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
I’m not particularly good at ‘celebrity’; I don’t think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I’ve never been one for the red carpet and don’t put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
Just because I am a celebrity doesn’t mean I can’t say, ‘Sorry.’
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
I’m not that big a celebrity. I’m just an ordinary person.
I love a good party – but I’m not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.
The only time I mind autographs is when I’m out with my family. You’re trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It’s the price you pay.
I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.
I didn’t become an actor to become a celebrity.
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.
People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.
When you have celebrity, it’s a whole different thing than being an artist.
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.
It’s so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it’s really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don’t lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don’t go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I’ve got a film out. I’ve not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be a celebrity now.
More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn’t do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There’s such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it – Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.
I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.
It’s hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It’s not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you’re good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, ‘Oh, it’s Will Smith. I’ve got to see him, whatever he’s in.’
This whole celebrity racket, it’s not really my bag. I don’t really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I’m an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don’t know how to be that.
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.
If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don’t want to do that.
Every celebrity case I’ve been involved in – I’ve been involved in a great many – the one thing you can be sure of is they don’t get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it’s never the same.
The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.
I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame’s flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
It’s never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
I didn’t really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it’s turned into.
When you think Selena Gomez, you think ‘celebrity.’ But really, she does so many things for me. She’s very caring. Before she goes on stage, she’s a goofy girl. She’s fun-loving and totally lovable, which I say in the most honest way. She’s not even a celebrity to me; she’s just a really cool person.
I wanted to bring something to ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ to let America know that you don’t have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.
I’ve been really lucky. I’ll completely forget that I’m a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, right.’
The only difference is that I’m a celebrity, and I’m shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I’m like most women my age.
My first celebrity crush… I had a huge crush on ‘Cheetara’ from ‘ThunderCats.’
I’ve never been asked to appear on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!,’ so I guess I mustn’t be on the professional skids just yet.
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
I was a celebrity bodyguard. I didn’t keep the best hours or choose the best food when I was on the road.
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.
Today a celebrity sex video isn’t a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it’s a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
