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Celebrity Quotes
"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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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.'"
66
"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
64
"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."
63
"I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive."
62
"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."
61
"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."
61
"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."
59
"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
58
"I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself."
56
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
55
"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
55
"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
55
"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."
54
"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."
53
"I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you."
53
"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."
53
"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."
52
"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."
52
"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."
52
"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal."
51
"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."
50
"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
50
"Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity."
50
"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."
50
"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."
50
"If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic."
49
"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
49
"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
48
"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."
47
"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."
47
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
47
"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."
46
"My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now."
46
"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."
46
"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."
44
"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star."
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