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"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
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"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."

"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."

"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles."

"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."

"I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive."

"So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one."

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."
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"I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover."
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