Celebrity Quotes - page 6

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities used to be kings and queens. Then the United States abolished monarchy, and now there's this coming together of show business and celebrity. I don't think it's healthy. I don't want to sound self-important, but all these celebrity shows and magazines-it comes from us, from Hollywood, from our country. We're the ones creating it. And I think it works in close step with a lot of other bad things that are happening in the world. It promotes greed, it promotes being selfish and it promotes this ladder, where you're a better person if you have more money. It's not at all about the work itself. Don't get me wrong. I love movies. But this myth of celebrity has nothing to do with movies. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. View quote
Irvine Welsh
In the 1970s I was amazed to be talked about as a '60s sex symbol. I wasn't that person, as if I were a doll from the past. I had to learn to come to terms with that. It's funny, it's silly, the ridiculousness of having asked so much of celebrity. Then it becomes really interesting and very much part of the excitement of the life you're living now, knowing you're approaching the end of it. View quote
Julie Christie
All women are aware of that moment when suddenly the boys don't look at you. It's a fairly common thing, when suddenly you no longer attract that instant male attention because of the way you look. I never really knew how to enjoy beauty, but it took the form of a subconscious arrogance, expecting things, all muddled up with celebrity. View quote
Julie Christie
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity, you can't write. View quote
Gloria Estefan
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. View quote
Hayden Christensen
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. View quote
Victoria Beckham
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. View quote
Victoria Beckham
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. (Lady Gaga)
There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. View quote
Dennis Quaid
I think that there has been clearly expounded the mind of arithmeticians, who, by means of numbers and of names, suppose that they interpret life. Now I perceive that these, enjoying leisure, and being trained in calculation, have been desirous that, through the art delivered to them from childhood, they, acquiring celebrity, should be styled prophets. View quote
Hippolytus of Rome
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. View quote
Ashlee Simpson
Write poetry for its own sake - not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it. View quote
Robert Southey
I always said I'd never go to New York until someone pays me-because I've seen people come back from New York like desiccated, broken... New York is a tough place if you're coming out of Port Authority or from Oregon, and they were paying me 356 dollars a day to be on the set [of Sid and Nancy] so that was really wonderful. Then I did Straight To Hell which went straight to video (but) then Andy Warhol noticed me from those two films. Then I got to be in Interview magazine and I got this little measure of celebrity, but with no money (laughs) that sucks... (but) it feels great if you've been wanting it. A lot of people like to say, ‘oh I didn't ask for this, it just happened. I'm the luckiest guy in the world...' I always wanted it. View quote
Courtney Love
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest. View quote
Elle Macpherson
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. View quote
Minnie Driver
I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. View quote
Gloria Swanson
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. View quote
Gloria Swanson
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. (Ali MacGraw)
My plan was not to be a celebrity. My plan was to be a singer and an entertainer. I wanted to go to NYU, major in musical theater, do Broadway, and come out with an album. Unfortunately, I started fucking up when I was in my teens. View quote
Nicole Richie
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director. View quote
Ricky Gervais
People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all. View quote
Katie Price
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. View quote
Carol Burnett