Quotes About Celebrity

Fame separates you from life.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

My private life became public.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'