To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
~By Judith Light ~
I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.
~By William Baldwin ~
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
~By George Dzundza ~
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!!!
~By Marc Almond ~
Celebrity damages private life.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
~By Hilary Duff ~
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
~By William Shatner ~
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
~By Jude Law ~
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
~By Bryce Dallas Howard ~
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.
~By Judith Light ~
Celebrity is very weird.
~By Javier Bardem ~
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
~By Jude Law ~
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.
~By Martin Milner ~
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
~By George Michael ~
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
~By Tracey Gold ~
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
~By Damon Albarn ~
One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.
~By Holly Johnson ~
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
~By Carol Burnett ~
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
~By David Duchovny ~
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.
~By Laura Linney ~
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.
~By Peter Shilton ~
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
~By Minnie Driver ~
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.
~By Steven Hill ~
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
~By Missy Elliot ~
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
~By Phil Donahue ~
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.
~By James McAvoy ~
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
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.
~By James Woods ~
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
~By Julie Christie ~
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
~By Adam Sandler ~
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
~By Kevin Costner ~
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
~By Winona Ryder ~
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
~By Leon Kass ~
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.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.
~By Allan Carr ~
I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
~By Adam Sandler ~
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.
~By Ron Silver ~
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
~By Judd Nelson ~
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
~By Dana Carvey ~
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.
~By Mark David Chapman ~
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.
~By Kristen Johnston ~
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.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
~By Steve Burns ~
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
~By Roger Ebert ~
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
~By Julie Christie ~
But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
~By Fred Allen ~
I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
~By Gary Coleman ~
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.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
~By Rachel Bilson ~
Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
~By William Petersen ~
But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
~By Winona Ryder ~
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.
~By Willie Aames ~
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
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.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
~By Sharon Osbourne ~
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
~By Vince Vaughn ~
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
~By Edward Tufte ~
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.
~By James Van Der Beek ~
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.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
~By Maureen Dowd ~
I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.
~By Jonny Lee Miller ~
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
~By Jessica Alba ~
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
~By Jason Patric ~
Celebrity hits like a bomb.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.
~By Paul Lynde ~
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
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