Quotes About Celebrity

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

Rita Haywood gave good face.

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

The media sells it and you live the role.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

Andy Warhol goes to the Big Soup Can in the Sky.

Now the movie stars beg people to follow their Zing feeds. They send pleading messages asking everyone to smile at them. And holy fuck, the mailing lists! Everyone's a junk mailer. You know how I spend an hour every day? Thinking of ways to unsubscribe to mailing lists without hurting anyone's feelings. There's this new neediness—it pervades everything.

Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the "injury," which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.

Fame and influence are both often fickle and localized.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (2012)

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. If I hadn't learned how to be a musician and writer, it wouldn't have mattered what I did. I never knew too many rock people. I would get to a place, some nightclub or other, and see all these famous rockers bonding.

I am only the person the greatest number of people think I am. (1999)

To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.