This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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.
It isn’t easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
Celebrity damages private life.
The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That’s why a book is so much better… a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!
We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.
As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
Unfortunately, in the entertainment field, sometimes you start believing your celebrity. You have a strong tendency to drift from the Lord, which I did. I did drift for a number of years.
It’s not easy to get a celebrity to attach themselves to something. You have to build a relationship.
It’s a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don’t have.
Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
I’ve always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
It’s sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
‘George’ exploits John Kennedy Jr.’s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.
Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn’t have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted – or, really, dragged into it – initially in Montgomery.
I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.
I don’t like being a celebrity, really… Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don’t think I agree with that at all.
The word ‘celebrity’ and the word ‘architect’ are basically incompatible.
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it’s almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory. It is, perhaps, the modern side of celebrity.
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that’s fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don’t have the same kind of problems, almost as if they’re classical gods.
I still can’t believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
There’s an art to being a good actor, there’s an art to being a celebrity, and there’s an art to longevity.
I’m a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.
The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.
Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal – well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we’re in. If it’s your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I’m used to that.
I do celebrity ski races all over the world.
The culture of celebrity has become insane. It’s all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.
I have been invited to do something called ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ in England, which, of course, I can’t do. It’s complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I’d be the joke one.
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn’t really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.
I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it’s being famous for being brilliant at something.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
When you’re a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don’t have a clue.
I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you’re an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It’s ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it’s something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don’t mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it’s not the only way to go.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we’re not encountering a celebrity.
People don’t find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have – don’t find their personal lives interesting.
I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
To me, there are two types of celebrity: there’s good celebrity – people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great – and then there’s bad celebrity – those who are working on being a celebrity.
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, ‘Hey, celebrities are just like us.’
I’m an athletic junkie – I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I’ve become buddies with a bunch of athletes.
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.
I don’t want people to look at me as someone who is just this celebrity person.
Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood – I was born next door.
As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
Obviously, I don’t like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it’s just more special to use it for good.
Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.
Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.
