People will think being the daughter of a celebrity is a very different life but surprisingly, we lead a very normal life and that’s what people will realize when they read my short stories.
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me – with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ phenomenon – was that I got an international celebrity out of it.
I don’t like being a celebrity.
I’m not a celebrity trainer. I don’t have my own line of DVDs, but I’m a fighter and have everything to prove.
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you’re going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to ‘save the planet?’
I don’t consider myself a celebrity and I don’t consider myself a star.
I don’t do celebrity.
It’s not really an original idea, but there’s something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you’re impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.
I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.
I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
I didn’t realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
I’ve always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.
My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I’m one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what’s out there, and if there’s a demand for something, I recognise it. I don’t think I’m crass. I stand by everything I do.
I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don’t care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it’s not remotely mysterious. But there’s something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.
You’re a sitting duck in a mall if you’re a celebrity. It’s like that scene from ‘Guarding Tess,’ I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.
It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
I haven’t been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.
I don’t care about awards and all the attention being a ‘celebrity’ gets you. It’s just part of the job.
The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.
I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; ‘celebrity’ is a pretty disgusting word. It’s part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don’t want to participate in that.
It’s pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven’t done much and are a celebrity.
In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there’s a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.
Being a celebrity doesn’t have an iota of value when you’re looking death in the eye.
My celebrity crush is not gonna find out who my celebrity crush is anytime soon. I’m so nervous! I may keep that to myself because if I do meet her and she already knows about it, that could be awkward.
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.
Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says ‘no.’
As a naturally reserved and quiet person, it’s definitely a challenge being thrust into this atmosphere of celebrity and everything that comes along with that. Some parts I’m resisting more than others but can’t for much longer, so I’m just trying to find a way to make sense of it all.
I love being an entertainer – not really fond of being a celebrity.
I love being an entertainer – not really fond of being a celebrity.
I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It’s been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I’ve never viewed myself as a celebrity.
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I’m doing on a Saturday night? I’m not even a celebrity.
Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they’re always interested in making you seem provocative when you’re not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you’d rather not have revealed. That’s the downside of celebrity.
The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that’s really the best of both worlds.
I think it’s tough when you’re very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity’s got zero interest to me.
I mean, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I’m sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money – and I do – should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
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.
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I’m on my way there.
I like Lil Wayne’s style. His style probably influences me the most. Basically, he’s just wearing exactly what he feels like wearing. He goes to the club, and he’s got shorts and a wife-beater on. That shows you what type of celebrity he is and what he is able to pull off, fashion-wise. I try to be in that same lane.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Forget Paula Dean; when it comes to on-air celebrity chefs, no one makes my stomach go pitter-patter more than Chef Anthony Bourdain. He is absolutely fearless.
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I was offered ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ for a lot of money, but I don’t like the level of degradation.
I don’t want to be a celebrity.
There’s actually a thing called Wikifeet that’s the Wikipedia of celebrity girls’ feet.
We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
I’ve always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.
It’s profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
It was weird – writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time.
You’ve got two huge clubs in Manchester that have got ‘celebrity’ managers, huge resources, massive turnovers. They can generate resources the rest of us can only imagine, and that’s before the TV money even kicks in.
I want to be an actor – I don’t want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.
I don’t in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I’m not.
Sometimes I’m happy – you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I’m pissed off – you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don’t want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, ‘He’s like a regular person at his job right now who’s mad.’
