Quotes About Celebrity

It seems like you always are the way you are right now, unless you are a movie star, when people always see you the way you were best.

Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day.

I remember attending a Friars roast for Muhammad Ali when Don Rickles grabbed me and walked me up to Sinatra. "Hey, Frank," he said to the Chairman of the Board, "tonight I'm sitting with this guy. You know why? Because he fills up baseball stadiums! You play bars." Frank laughed and waved him off, with me standing there silently. Soon

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Can Chris Rock swing by tonight? And by the way, he's bringing David Blaine with him.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I don't know. … Vanity? Insecurity? Kardashianism?

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

With a face and a figure and an acting talent like that, she could have had Hollywood tramping a path of beaten gold to her doorstep.

Mick Jagger played the role in their [students] lives that Napoleon played in the lives of ordinary young Frenchmen throughout the nineteenth century. Everyone else was so boring and unable to charm youthful passions.

What Applebee's was proposing was like Rick Bayless's endorsement of a line of chicken sandwiches for Burger King

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.

Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.

Somehow, I think the fact that the inceptor looked like a cross between a young George Clooney and Orlando Bloom might have played into that a little bit.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Who is Justin Bieber, and why is his hair poisonous to small girls?" It was a long time before he could stop laughing hard enough to answer her.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

An interesting way into the celebrity interview podcast is via their dogs. Celebs may not be keen to let us into their homes, because they don't like us to see how wealthy they are. However, tell them you want to go for a walk on Hampstead Heath with them and their mutt, and they're only too happy.