Quotes About Celebrity

Sixteen magazine, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies during the reigns of Herman's Hermits and the Monkees.

Pete Townshend asked me to dinner with his wife at his house in Twickenham, on the Thames.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

Ronald Reagan , struck down by Alzheimer's disease, has simply forgotten he was once President of the United States. Is this really so serious? When he was President he had already forgotten he had been an actor. And isn't it more serious to take yourself for the President of the United States when you are, than to forget you have been when you no longer are?

It was all he could do not to laugh, the lives of the vast majority of authors being far more private than they likely wished. Maybe Stephen King or John Grisham got approached in the supermarket by a quavering person extending pen and paper, but for most writers, even reliably published and actually self-supporting writers, the privacy was thunderous.

Nous voyons, même de nos jours, que les gouvernements qui se conduisent le mieux sont ceux dont on parle le moins. Nous ne savons donc que le mal ; à peine le bien fait-il époque. Il n'y a que les méchants de célèbres, les bons sont oubliés ou tournés en ridicule : et voilà comment l'histoire, ainsi que la philosophie, calomnie sans cesse le genre humain.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

Celebrity, for me, equal hatred

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.