Quotes About Celebrity

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

It's a different world now and as we see with footballers and everybody else, and the fall from grace of any sportsman, it's a difficult balancing act now of going out and being nice to the general public and being very wary.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

My biggest secret is that I don't over-wash my hair. I wash it twice a week at the most, unless I'm on set every day.

People think you go home and be a celeb, sipping Laurent-Perrier and listening to classical music. You don't. You go home and wash some pants in the sink.

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.

People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'

You know how country music stars get an extra 10 years on their life when they go to Branson? Like you're washed up, and you go to Branson, then you can last another 10 years. That's what bashing the media does.

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

And for just a second or two, we lusted after 21 Jump Street Johnny Depp.

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you ' really kind of cool you know.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

You wouldn't be the first celebrity who seemed to think giving mouth service to a few good works will make everybody willing to forgive and forget, just gloss over an ugly past.

Fame is, after all, only the sum of all the misunderstandings that gather around a new name.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.