Quotes About Celebrity

I live in Hollywood where truth is a speech defect.

I don't think people so much wanted to be her as to idolize her and their idea of what she represented—a commoner who became a princess, who then became the princess of the people. I'm glad she lived during my lifetime. The phenomenon of what her life became—I don't think we'll ever see the likes of it again. --Harry Benson

We're meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or took a coffee break, or stopped for a hot dog on the street, or wandered downstairs for a few spoonfuls of chocolate pudding in the middle of the night.

That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

He's always been something like a star to me

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

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

When fans start screaming when they see me it makes my heart smile.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

I dont understand why my fans cry when they see me. Do I make you sad? No, right? So smile, I like that!

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

El interés público se limita a la curiosidad por la vida privada de las figuras públicas, y el arte de la vida pública queda reducido a la exhibición pública de asuntos privados y a confesiones públicas de sentimientos privados (cuanto más íntimos, mejor). Los "temas públicos" que se resisten a esa reducción se transforman en algo incomprensible.

With every step he took in Africa, Stanley planned how to tell the story once he got home. In a twentieth-century way, he was always sculpting the details of his own celebrity.