Celebrity Quotes

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

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

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

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

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

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

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.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

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

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

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

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.