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"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal."

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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."

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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."

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"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

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"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"

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"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."

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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."

Walter Cronkite, American Journalist

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"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."

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"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."

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"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."

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"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."

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"I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive."

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"I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest."

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"Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."

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"I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness."

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"I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun."

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"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."

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"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement."

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"Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."

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