Quotes About Celebrity

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.

They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

I don't change anything for someone unless I know they don't eat something. I don't create dishes that only celebs or friends would get. There's a democracy to the food that goes out in all my restaurants.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.