Quotes About Celebrity

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

Normal" women were rare, unless one considered Judy Garland a normal woman.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I cried all the way to the bank.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like?

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

To be famous and broke is hard.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence began working like real nuns, raising money for the sick at church bingos and organizing a charity dog show featuring Shirley MacLaine as emcee.