Quotes About Celebrity

My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

recently famous son of an even better known TV chef.

You earn millions hosting a hit TV show. You've got a wicked house by the beach, your car does two hundred miles per hour and your girlfriend is a model. I officially bloody hate you.

fascist leaders enjoyed a kind of supremacy that was not quite like leadership in other kinds of regime. The Führer and the Duce could claim legitimacy neither by election nor conquest. It rested on charisma,42 a mysterious direct communication with the Volk or razza that needs no mediation by priests or party chieftains. Their charisma resembled media-era celebrity "stardom," raised to a higher power by its say over war and death.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I never know whether to thank Will Smith or hit him.

Fame as she walked at evening in a city saw the painted face of Notoriety flaunting beneath a gas-lamp, and many kneeled unto her in the dirt of the road. Who are you? Fame said to her. I am Fame, said Notoriety. Then Fame stole softly away so that no one knew she had gone. And Notoriety presently went forth and all her worshippers rose and followed after, and she led them, as was most meet, to her native Pit.

But one didn't attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum

notoriety is not real glory.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient

Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.

He craved a privacy impossible for the world's most famous banker.

While to a grown woman his being a rock star was a bit distasteful

Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the airwaves.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.