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Quotes About Celebrity

Trump is the Kim Kardashian of American politics, replacing substance with solipsism and issues debates with Twitter feuds, and showing a rare talent for grabbing the attention of an ADD nation round the clock as he tries to be Troll in Chief. "Celebrity
~ Maureen Dowd
Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!
~ Maureen Johnson
but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity
~ Maureen Johnson
somehow when it's real, when it's your life...that person can feel farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sure, Noah was a bit closer than that...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't bread familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson
But it felt like I knew him in the same way that I know people on television. I knew the name. I watched the show.
~ Maureen Johnson
In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. —Morrissey, "The Last of the Famous International Playboys
~ Maureen Johnson
Isn't it odd? When a politician or a movie star retires, we read front page stories about it. But when a philosopher retires, people do not even notice it." "They do, eventually.
~ Ayn Rand
From college professors and authors and judges and ministers! Everybody! Dirt farmers and international names!...I don't know what she does to them all - but she does something. She's not a movie star to them - she's a goddess.
~ Ayn Rand
The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill time. They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friends, to drawing rooms, evening clothes, cocktail glasses and movies, to unadmitted pain, murdered hope, desire left unreached, left hanging silently over a path on which no step was taken, to days of effort not to think, not to say, to forget and give in and give up.
~ Ayn Rand
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
~ Barack Obama
What I knew was that he was a spectacle, and in the United States of America in 2011, that was a form of power. Trump trafficked in a currency that, however shallow, seemed to gain more purchase with each passing day. The same reporters who laughed at my jokes would continue to give him airtime. Their publishers would vie to have him sit at their tables. Far from being ostracized for the conspiracies he'd peddled, he in fact had never been bigger.
~ Barack Obama
The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.
~ Stephen King
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
~ Steve Martin
Did not go well at mall. Passerby said, "how's the screenplay goin', Steve?" Worried about tomorrow's performance on CSI… and Emmy.
~ Steve Martin
And now Dr. Phil's latest book, Here's Some More Advice I Pulled Out of My Ass. —David Letterman
~ Steve Salerno
Cities were suddenly populated by a class of consumers, free to worry about other pressing matters: new technologies, new modes of commerce, politics, professional sports, celebrity gossip. That
~ Steven Johnson
The peace researcher John Galtung pointed out that if a newspaper came out once every fifty years, it would not report half a century of celebrity gossip and political scandals. It would report momentous global changes such as the increase in life expectancy.
~ Steven Pinker
A reporter once sent Cary Grant the telegram, "How old Cary Grant?" He replied, "Old Cary Grant fine.
~ Steven Pinker
What I love most about achieving whatever Ive achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!
~ Ross Mathews
I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.
~ Emilia Clarke
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.
~ Johnny Vegas
I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.
~ Pete Doherty