Celebrity Quotes - page 20

Celebrity has merged human institutions into a "much-of-a-mulchness”, such that the values surrounding political leaders and infamous sex workers are becoming increasingly indistinguisable. (Yakoub Islam)
We've been listening into and watching your planet's radio and television transmissions ever since Reginald Fessenden proclaimed, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good willies', back in 1906. Since then, our research at the University of Weagu Tafrid has focused primarily on the concept of human "celebrity”. View quote
Yakoub Islam
I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.' View quote
Matt Damon
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity. View quote
Lewis Black
I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation. View quote
Dolly Parton
Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. View quote
Sarah Michelle Gellar
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it. (Julie Christie)
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much. View quote
Julie Christie
He (Salman) may not be media savvy, he may be involved in some unfortunate incidents, but Salman at heart is one of the nicest guys I know in the industry, and even outside it. He is constantly being misrepresented in the media and being made a target just because he happens to be a celebrity. View quote
Preity Zinta
Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you. View quote
Willem Dafoe
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules. View quote
Nick Clegg
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get. View quote
Jeff Beck
I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated. View quote
James Woods
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film. (Sienna Miller)
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. View quote
James McAvoy
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways. View quote
Sade Adu
I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity. View quote
Sade Adu
If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference. View quote
Lady Gaga