Quotes About Celebrity

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

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.

One of the hardest things in the world is being faithful when you are famous

You should be grateful if I reply your dms, other celebrities don't have time.

Besides seeking the continued attention of others, the other way to gain fame is to despise it.

Living in a generation where almost everyone has become famous, now the only way to gain fame is to despise it completely. ?

The price of fame is the cultivation of tolerance.

I don't really see myself as famous.

They're playing groupie, so I'm playing rock star.

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity - shines most brightly. On our deathbeds, none of us will speak of the jobs we've held or the stuff we've acquired in our lifetimes; here bull markets and Nielsen ratings are irrelevant. A life-threatening illness jettisons pretension in no time flat. Death is the great equalizer. Death dares us to define what really matters.

And what fan wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Taylor's gap-toothed smile.

Tinseltown. Its

You Are famous and it's confirmed, but not everyone is a fan.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view

All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.

Don, we're huge fans," I said. "Don, we're huge fans," he shot back in a high-pitched voice meant to mock me. What a jerk, I thought, but I didn't care, because he was Don Berman, and that's what Don Berman did.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Consider this: Every day in America more people get their evening news from Entertainment Tonight, an insipid syndicated television show covering celebrity news, than from CBS, NBC, and ABC combined.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

As I write, the President of the United States is a former Hollywood movie actor.

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.