Quotes About Celebrity

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.

I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

Mary doesn't want to be treated as Mary J. Blige: she just wants to be Mary.

Hollywood has treated me well.

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

I've been treated really well for 'Stick It.' There was this cop and he pulled me over and he was like, 'Oh my God, you're in 'Stick It.' I said, 'Yes. Yes. You're the last person I would think would be pumped up by this movie'. He let me go, so that was nice.

I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon Brando.

I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly.

There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.

I really worry about the way in which you, as a celebrity, are disproportionately treated. Frankly, the industry is almost single-handedly designed to interfere with people's moral chemistry.