Quotes About Publicity

I've pretty much always been in the limelight. A star in my own right.

I'm forever in the 'limelight' being Da Brat, being an entertainer, being a star.

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

It is kind of weird to walk into a Starbucks and have somebody know your name. But normal-day life really hasn't changed that much. There's just a lot more eyes on you on social media.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.

You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

For me, stardom means when people know your name when you appear on screen.

I have to maintain my stardom.

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.

Initially I used to find it very awkward when people used to turn back and stare, but now I am used to it and love all the attention.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.