Quotes About Celebrity

I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.

I've been to NBA playoff games.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

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

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

Actually, Hollywood is the reverse of what most outsiders think it is. It is not a crazy, nervous place. An actor is less bothered here than he is anywhere else. You can live your life as you please and nobody cares.

Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.

You can't please everyone in life, which is especially true for great stars.

Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.

The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love 'X-Men.' They'll do it because of them - that's our little extra ace in the hole.

I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

I was friends with Cube; he was also a fan of mine, and I a fan of him. Even before Balistyx happened I was hanging out with him, taking him to 'The Arsenio Hall Show' for his first time. I was like, 'Ice Cube, I've got a plus 1, you should go,' and I took him. Cube wasn't known at all yet.

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.