Celebrity Quotes

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

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. They want you to tell about what you saw.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

Celebrity damages private life.

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.

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.

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.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

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 loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

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 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.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!