Quotes About Celebrity

If Shakespeare were alive now, no doubt he'd be interviewed every week and his opinions canvassed on every subject from national foreign policy to the social effects of punk rock. But in his day nobody cared what Shakespeare's views were about anything, and he wouldn't have been allowed to discuss public affairs publicly. He wasn't, therefore, under a constant pressure to become opinionated.

anyway, the whole world knows, european & non-european alike, the whole world knows that nobody loves the black woman like they love farrah fawcett-majors. the whole world dont turn out for a dead black woman like they did for marilyn monroe. (actually, the demise of josephine baker waz an international event, but she waz also a war hero)

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

I was right there in the middle of all of this action. I didn't have to think up gags…The cartoons drew themselves…I was more surprised than anyone when Brother Bootsie became a Harlem household celebrity, not only among the colored proletariat be among the literati as well.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

On my tombstone, I want written, 'He never did 'Love Boat!

He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

I will either be famous or infamous.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

Wow, dude, come in,' said Tommy [Lee], when I rang the door-bell. 'I can't believe it. Ozzy Osbourne's in my house.'

It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

I'm not proud of everything I've done, I'm not proud of all the drugs and booze, or biting the heads off a few animals. But I was young. I didn't know what the fuck I was thinking. Still it could be worse. I could be Sting.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

My breasts have a career. I'm just tagging along.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character.

Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!