Quotes About Celebrity

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don't need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.

It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.

People ask me, 'Are you the tennis player?' They don't treat me like a movie star. If you are a movie star, people go crazy. They don't go crazy around me.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'

I was a 23-year-old law student when I won the 'Great British Bake Off' in 2012. For 10 weeks I had balanced my degree finals with the tension and scrutiny inside the white tent (not to mention a few nights out here and there).

I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term that I hated. To me a celebrity DJ is someone that's on 'Big Brother' or in some kind of B-movie who gets a gig to DJ even though they're not talented enough to do it.

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

I used to feel sorry for some of the guys who were in 'EastEnders,' who had done something terrible to somebody, and people were shouting at them in the street. I'd think: 'God, I'd hate it if that happened to me.'

Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.