Quotes About Celebrity

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

La célébrité de l'île ne datait pas d'hier: son nom, ou plutôt sa qualification, remontait à la plus haute Antiquité; les anciens l'appelaient Kalonèse, de deux mots grecs qui signifient belle île.

She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they'd been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.

None of the other Beatles attended. Just as Paul and Linda were exchanging vows, George was being arrested for drug possession at his own home. He attended the reception. John and Yoko were in the studio completing their second joint LP, Unfinished Music No. 2—Life with the Lions. And Ringo Starr was filming The Magic Christian, with Peter Sellers. No other Beatles were present eight days later, when John married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

Watch TV and you'll be told the only people who count in the world are celebrities and the rich—and you already know your chances of joining either group are vanishingly small. Flick through an Instagram feed or a glossy magazine, and your normal-shaped body will feel disgusting to you. Go to work and you'll have to obey the whims of a distant boss earning hundreds of times more than you.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

When you are following me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that's pretty cool.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.