Quotes About Celebrity

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

One of the interesting things about my father was that what you see on-camera is a lot of what he was like in real life.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I can't walk down the street anywhere in the world without being stopped. It can be an interruption, but on the whole, it's flattering.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

A couple of years ago I decided that my dream is to dance with J.Lo. She was on top of my dreamboard and I've talked about her in almost every interview I've done, whenever they ask what my biggest dreams are.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

I want to interview Alec Baldwin.

I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!

I can understand why people want to know who 'the real Ruth Jones' is. That's human nature. But do you ever get that from an interview?

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

Hollywood, after all, is the home of those whom silent star Mae Murray called the "self-enchanted." And having grown up in Hollywood, I've known a lot of self-enchanted people. Not since the pharaohs thought they were gods have so many human beings believed that they themselves (and not their publicists or destiny or some larger force) were responsible for the fact that so many other human beings worshiped them.

Though I have no kids and Hollywood doesn't exist, I firmly believe, however, that it did exist. And like Rome, we are living amidst the fallen columns and clothes-lined courtyards, in the ruins of an empire of the self-enchanted which was once, briefly, more devastating than Caesar's and still brings respectable families to a hot, windy intersection in August to sigh with unnoticed despondence, "…Well…here we are…Hollywood and Vine.

Every article about her sooner or later gets around to the subject of her lovers, who were reportedly legion. (Earl McGrath, former president of Rolling Stone Records: "In every young man's life there is an Eve Babitz. It's usually Eve Babitz.")

Janis Joplin was always wondering when her prince would come, and the wait was such a bore that she purchased total surcease on the smooth, blank, clear, smiling lake of heroin. A famous friend of the famous

Those women, her age and a little older, who'd all gone crazy or who were hooking in the Polo Lounge or who were married to real old movie stars and had to look old too, to match. Those occasional men of genius who, like one friend of hers, could cast the right person for the right part and never miss—never.

Never mind the people who wrote huge articles in the New Journalism style about politics or rock stars. But for me to get into this magazine on the strength of no facts, no plodding, no interviews, and just a romance about Hollywood High, meant I must, in the magazine's opinion, be a star myself.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.