Quotes About Celebrity

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

MADONNA WASN'T GOING to give it up to a regular reporter. We thought first of asking Norman Mailer to do the piece, but in retrospect that could have been an ego train wreck. She agreed to Carrie Fisher. (Carrie said she was our "lower-budget alternative.")

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don't know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.

The only reason my wife agreed to marry me is because Christian Bale wasn't around to propose to her.

When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, Thanks for being a fan." Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated ' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

A celebrity these days is somebody you've never heard of

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.