Celebrity Quotes

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.