Quotes About Celebrity

Those people in 'Friends' could not go out without being hounded, shouted at or followed. Who wants that? I don't want that.

I've started to experience being followed around where I live, and it's never nice. With acting, you realize that it's part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you're sort of born into it.

I never followed 'Big Boss.'

The kind of crazy amount of fan following that I achieved from 'Ek Hazaaron Mein' was amazing. We used to get i-Pads as gift, Abercrombie and Fitch dresses from America. I had everything in the world.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

Fame, for me, is different. Fame, for me, is not seeing myself on big billboards: it is when I go on a street and people connect to me. If I going to walk on the street, I know I can get 100,000 people following me.

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.

I love the Food Network.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

When I look back at old footage of me back in the early '90s, it almost looks like a cartoon character, or something.

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

Top-flight football players are a strange bunch.

It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.

Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

A footballer can have even more problems than other people. Sometimes money and fame can become a problem, too.

I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'

People watch me because I am a footballer, not because I wear a nice watch.

But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Liverpool is no different to any other city in the country for footballers. If you are famous and people know you have money, there will always be someone who wants to make a name for themselves.