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Celebrity Quotes


"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."



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


"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."


"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."


"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.'"


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


"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important."


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


"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."


"I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself."


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


"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."


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


"But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way."


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


"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."


"So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it."


"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."



"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."


"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"


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


"I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you."


"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."


"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."


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


"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."


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


"My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now."


"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."



"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star."


"If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic."


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



"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 think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person."



"Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity."


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


"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
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