Quotes About Celebrity

Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn't have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted - or, really, dragged into it - initially in Montgomery.

Sometimes, when you roll out of bed, you don't want to be photographed by the paparazzi. Usually you like to know when you're being photographed. I've learnt that, as a public figure, you have to up your game and be prepared. Ideally, you try not to roll out of bed without brushing your hair - just chuck a brush through it, make a little effort.

Being considered a public figure honestly makes me laugh.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

Let me marry in a normal way. I know I'm a public figure, but the person I'm getting married to might need privacy.

I've never been able to control my public image.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.