We’ve collected the best Celebrity Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Angela Kinsey, Hugh Grant, A. R. Rahman, Aishwarya R. Dhanush, Lauren Greenfield. Use them as an inspiration.
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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.
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People will think being the daughter of a celebrity is a very different life but surprisingly, we lead a very normal life and that’s what people will realize when they read my short stories.
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My first book, ‘Fast Forward’, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I’ve often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it’s everything the British love to hate about the Americans.
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I don’t know how I got involved in ‘Celebrity Wife Swap.’ It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I was an unusually private person – in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
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I don’t want people to look at me as someone who is just this celebrity person.
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it’s unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.
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I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‘I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!’ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.
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I think that’s something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it’s kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.
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Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.
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I was a businessman for a long time before I was a celebrity.
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It’s so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it’s really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
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I didn’t realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
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In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they’re not so interested in other people.
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I’ve never been interested in celebrity.
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When you have celebrity, it’s a whole different thing than being an artist.
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To become a celebrity, a name – and I’ve actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person – it’s scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
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I’m a professional actor, not a celebrity.
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There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.
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I’m not that big a celebrity. I’m just an ordinary person.
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I’m surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.
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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It’s one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don’t change from role to role. I don’t want it that way.
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Well, Jon Hamm isn’t a real celebrity.
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I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
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I don’t have big time celebrity friends – I’m just a guy.
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I’ve spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long time. It has made people almost literally insane, even those who make a great show of repudiating it. Those people, like novelists, who can no longer enjoy this status are condemned to despise it.
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For me, I don’t have a publicist. I don’t want to talk about my personal life. I don’t want to talk about my process. I don’t want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It’s nice to be an entertainer, but I’m a reluctant celebrity.
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I can’t get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it’s just crass.
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Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.
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I don’t like being a celebrity.
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Separation is very important to me. I don’t strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it’s made and it’s purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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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!!!
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Celebrity is a gift. I’m very lucky.
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I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
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Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
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I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don’t even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground.
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.
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I’ve been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
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You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it’s a good idea. But I can’t do it.
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When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.
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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.
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Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it’s all punctuation.
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I’ve never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.
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The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids – my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.
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I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it’s here, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.
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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.
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I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
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People don’t find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have – don’t find their personal lives interesting.
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I can’t stand the word ‘celebrity.’ It’s such a brash word.
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We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it’s not what it’s cracked to be.
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I’ve always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.
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Doing ‘I’m A Celebrity’ is a childhood dream come true.
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Celebrity is very weird.
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‘Potato-chip news’ is news that’s repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.
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I’ve never had a celebrity crush! I don’t believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you’ve never met them?
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For me, I’ve got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.
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In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don’t think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it’s all common sense: treat others as you’d like to be treated yourself.
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That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
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I don’t consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.
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You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
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As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.
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It’s profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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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.
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They do not air ‘GH’ in Holland, so I don’t get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn’t affect things much. It’s a wonderful life and I am so blessed.
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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.
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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.
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It’s a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they’re larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that’s not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.
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I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.
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Today, I have two kids of my own and I talk about the challenges of being a celebrity wife, mom and my kids too.
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Look, at the same time that I don’t want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I’d be a baby and a fool to be like, ‘Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?’ when I’m on a billboard for a movie. I think that’s a very absurd concept.
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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
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If you’re a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I’m just a working stiff. I don’t get bodyguards or alarm systems.
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I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they’re more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
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I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; ‘celebrity’ is a pretty disgusting word. It’s part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don’t want to participate in that.
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I think every celebrity that I love wears my shoes. I’m a particular fan of Julianne Moore, and I adore Jennifer Lawrence. There are so many beautiful women. I love Poppy Delevingne, of course; I even made a collection with her.
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When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
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I’m not really part of that ‘L.A. thing’ or that celebrity culture. I’m more like someone who observes it, and I can’t ever imagine being like that.
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Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
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I’m just the same guy… I don’t need to be a celebrity or a superstar.
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I don’t consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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I’ve always have loved reality programmes. ‘Big Brother,’ ‘I’m A Celebrity,’ they’re my guilty pleasure.
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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
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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.
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I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.
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Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.
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When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can’t be all about them. Everybody doesn’t want to just look like the celebrity, because they can’t. They just want one element of that style.
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Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says ‘no.’
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People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn’t bother me at all.
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The Baha’i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
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If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don’t want to do that.
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I’m always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don’t understand the attraction.
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I’m really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it’s really an interest in the image.
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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.
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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I’m too frightened to go on ‘Celebrity Mastermind.’ You really are shown up. Just you and a chair – there’s no way out.
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I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don’t care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I’ve always been afraid of that, because I’ve grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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One of the perils of being a Z list celebrity is Twitter. Its brutal.
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I’m really not a celebrity; I’m just a teacher.
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Celebrity is death – celebrity – that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
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When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
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I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
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The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna’s. She has the most incredible physique – and the woman’s in her 50s!
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The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That’s why a book is so much better… a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!
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I don’t want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.
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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.
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Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.
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I’ve never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I’ve always liked regular girls, regular people, because I’ve always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.
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When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I’d like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.
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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.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I am honored to continue the fight for equal economic opportunities, the right to choose, and an end to gender-based violence by serving as an ACLU Celebrity Ambassador.
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Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
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I didn’t want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it’s not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
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The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that’s what I went for rather than the safe choices.
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I didn’t read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
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I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they’re going to tear you down.
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Denzel’s all about the work. He’s all about the acting. He’s an actor. He’ll tell you himself, ‘I’m not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I’m an actor.’ He steps on a set, that’s what he is, and that’s what he gives you. He gives his heart.
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I’ve always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
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People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.
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I’m not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press… its an odd thing and something I’ve had to learn a lot about.
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Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you’re going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
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I like how TV used to be – ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ and ‘Play for Today’, instead of ‘Stars in Your Eyes’ and ‘Celebrity Come Cook With Me’ or whatever. I hate all that stuff.
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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there’s a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don’t need to do so.
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I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only ‘celebrity’ type people who are from there are skiers.
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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.
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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.
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To be a celebrity, I couldn’t think of anything more cringe-worthy.
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I’m really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone’s buzz or celebrity.
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For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there’s, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don’t pay attention until it’s a big name. And we don’t pay attention ’til it’s a big celebrity.
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I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
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There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
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Just because I am a celebrity doesn’t mean I can’t say, ‘Sorry.’
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I see too many celebrity kids who can’t sing. If you don’t have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I’ve done.
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I want to use my celebrity for good.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
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Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.
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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
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I think it’s a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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The cult of celebrity in the ’60s and ’70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn’t care about Janis Joplin.
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Honestly, man, I’m not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.
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I’ve never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn’t the best attacking midfielder in the country – much as I hate Man. U!
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Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director‘s eyes, you ‘get it right’ does not allow for very much creative freedom… In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
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One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.
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For me I’m a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it’s not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it’s about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
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Someone was like, ‘If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.’ And I was like, ‘Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.’
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Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that’s really the best of both worlds.
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In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking’s comments. I said one shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
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I’d like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn’t have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody’s schizophrenic they’ve lost all their teeth.
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After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be ‘Just Like Us?’ ‘Just Like Us’ means just as boring as we are.
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To be the leading man it’s about the celebrity and the looks, and it’s tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith – they’re built for that. I ain’t. I’m more of a character guy.
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Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role – unless you’re just vain about celebrity. You’re always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
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I really worry about the way in which you, as a celebrity, are disproportionately treated. Frankly, the industry is almost single-handedly designed to interfere with people’s moral chemistry.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don’t want it to be.
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
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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.
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I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
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I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.
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I don’t think I’m a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.
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I’m a real big celebrity. I’m this megastar.
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I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you’re the center of the universe.
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I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.
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We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
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It’s pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven‘t done much and are a celebrity.
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I’ve always thought of myself as a role model even before being a ‘celebrity.’ I’ve always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.
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Working-class people don’t tend to be wooed by celebrity.
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I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it’s being famous for being brilliant at something.
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My first celebrity crush… I had a huge crush on ‘Cheetara’ from ‘ThunderCats.’
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There’s this misconception out there that at any level of celebrity, you have someone to do hair and makeup when you’re out touring, but no, it is just not the case. I do it all myself.
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I’m always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I really don’t want to end up like that cliche celebrity teenager kid who is a bad example.
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Being a celebrity, I don’t even have to talk.
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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.
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I was offered ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ for a lot of money, but I don’t like the level of degradation.
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Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.
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I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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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.
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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.
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I’m a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.
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Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.
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Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.
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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.
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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.
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There’s an art to being a good actor, there’s an art to being a celebrity, and there’s an art to longevity.
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Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn’t really be interesting to me.
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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.
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I don’t go to celebrity parties a lot. I don’t really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people… it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift‘s birthday party; then it’s amazing.
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I want to be an actor – I don’t want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.
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I think chatbots are the future of engagement between a fan and a brand or celebrity.
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I was interested in the idea of celebrity… some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.
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I don’t feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way – and I’m not very good at it, either.
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I don’t think there’s room in video games for people to bring an ego. It’s very frustrating for any actor to have someone who’s a celebrity take over your place. Like the ‘Uncharted‘ film, they’re trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it’s like, why do they not think of us? We do this.
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I’m just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I’ve built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity – a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn’t do anything.
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Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it’s not healthy.
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Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
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I am a different kind of celebrity; I don’t have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.
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I don’t mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
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If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.
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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.
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I am not a famous person at home – I’m just a guy here. I’m a father, I’m a companion, I’m a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself – I am just a guy.
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Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.
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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money – and I do – should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
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I wasn’t able to make the full commitment until I met ‘Celebrity Rehab‘s’ Dr. Drew.
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I don’t think I’m a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.
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Every celebrity case I’ve been involved in – I’ve been involved in a great many – the one thing you can be sure of is they don’t get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it’s never the same.
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I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can’t lead a normal life.
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Our goal is really to make sure that ‘Instagram‘, whether you’re a celebrity or not, is a safe place and that the content that gets posted is something that’s appropriate for teens and also for adults.
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I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.
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Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.
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I’ve read stories that are set in a celebrity’s house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what’s inside it, and that’s not something I want anyone to know.
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I was never a celebrity – just a working actor.
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I don’t know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life – the celebrity and the spectacle – has never interested me.
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.
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I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
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All that celebrity stuff isn’t me. It’s just not acting.
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Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn’t an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
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Of course, nobody’s tearing my door down. If you’re successful you’re going to intimidate and scare off the people you’d like to spend time with. They’re not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
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We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you – to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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I don’t consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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I don’t in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I’m not.
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I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.
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I got offered loads of reality shows, including ‘I’m A Celebrity’ and ‘Celebrity Big Brother.’
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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.
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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.
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There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
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I never should have done ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ I didn’t want to do it because I didn’t want Donald Trump to say, ‘You’re fired.’
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I’m not striving for fame, that’s for sure. I don’t particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there’s a balance to be made there.
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I’m rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.
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Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
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Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
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I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
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For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don’t mind being in the public, but it’s just not really my personality, and it’s not really why I’m into this. I like making art, and that’s it. I don’t really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.
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I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.
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The secret truth of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is that it isn’t very hard… ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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I just go about my life. I’m a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I’m definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I’m a celebrity-adjacent.
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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.
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You’re going to find out who your friends are. Anything that happens in your life is one of those challenges. It may not be at the level of celebrity, but everybody’s going to travel that road.
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This whole celebrity racket, it’s not really my bag. I don’t really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I’m an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don’t know how to be that.
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Under Armour‘s success depends in part on endorsements from celebrity athletes, many of whom – like Stephen Curry, the basketball star – are African-American.
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If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there’s no reason we can’t also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.
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With celebrity being our new religion, it’s increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever before.
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I’m very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
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The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we’re not encountering a celebrity.
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You’re supposed to look a certain way when you’re a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don’t mesh very well.
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It’s a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Do I think it’s great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don’t? No. But do I think we’ll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.
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I’m not interested in the idea of celebrity.
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It’s weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It’s a part of the business that grosses me out. I’m always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they’re also famous, and they can’t live their life.
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I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn’t have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.
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Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
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I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.
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I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I’m too classy to bring that up.
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Just because I am a celebrity doesn’t mean I can’t say, ‘Sorry.’
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I was offered ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I’m into.
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Obviously, I don’t like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it’s just more special to use it for good.
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Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.
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I’m in the public eye. I’m a celebrity and a football player.
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I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
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I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I’d find a positive in the situation. It’s how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don’t love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.
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I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we’d have paparazzi chasing us. I’m not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, ‘What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?’
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Celebrity damages private life.
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I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.
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I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There’s a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.
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I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
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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.
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My house has always been like everyone’s house. You walk in, you’re a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same – with love from my mom.
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I founded ‘Point Hope’ so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children who had no one to advocate for them, children who had no voice. Since I have been blessed with a voice on the radio each night, I thought I would use my celebrity position and my financial resources to help these kids.
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For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it’s by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.
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America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we’re better than they are.
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Most of the time, I’ve got my kids with me, so I’m not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you’re a celebrity.
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You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There’s no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don’t think you have to worry about it. But you do.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician… tailor.
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My first-ever celebrity crush was Val Kilmer from ‘Top Secret!’ Not his biggest film, but I remember loving him in that movie.
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Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn’t a celebrity.
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It’s not the part of being a celebrity that’s so attractive to me. It’s being recognized for your accomplishments and what you’ve done… becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
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I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.
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He is a regular guy who absolutely is not attracted to his own celebrity. He’s a jokester, a little rough around the edges, with great heart and compassion; he loves his family. I feel very comfortable with him. I don’t see ‘Denzel Washington Star’; I just see Denzel.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I’m part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.
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What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
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Celebrity culture, it’s everywhere, isn’t it? It’s reality TV, Big Brother. I didn’t become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn’t want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
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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.
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Every celebrity case I’ve been involved in – I’ve been involved in a great many – the one thing you can be sure of is they don’t get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it’s never the same.
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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’
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Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I’m on my way there.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
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‘Celebrity Apprentice’ has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I’ve ever seen.
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My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be a celebrity now.
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I’ve never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I’m a cooking teacher.
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My being some kind of celebrity – not a real celebrity, isn’t a welcome part of the job.
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People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
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When you think Selena Gomez, you think ‘celebrity.’ But really, she does so many things for me. She’s very caring. Before she goes on stage, she’s a goofy girl. She’s fun-loving and totally lovable, which I say in the most honest way. She’s not even a celebrity to me; she’s just a really cool person.
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If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it’s me. I don’t feel frightened; I feel challenged.
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I don’t know what’s more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It’s absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.
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I regret that I wasn’t the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
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I’m interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.
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I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you’re an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
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I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you’re feeling and you aren’t totally allowed to be yourself, because you’re in the public eye.
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I’m thought of as a celebrity. Everything I’ve ever done… has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don’t have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don’t think that I’m a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That’s more comfortable.
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If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn’t be a supermodel because it’s all about celebrity.
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Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
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There’s so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.
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I think it’s very dangerous, the idea of celebrity – you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment – it’s just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
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I was doing a show in L.A. called ‘Celebrity Autobiography,’ where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities’ books and hang themselves with their own rope.
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Celebrity is something I’ve never been into, and never will be.
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Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
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I don’t really want to be a celebrity.
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The whole celebrity thing is not something I’m overly interested in. I don’t pop up at parties. It’s just not my thing.
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I really enjoy encountering a celebrity who’s like, ‘Let’s go; you’d better have your A-game on.’ You sit down with Madonna, and she’s like, ‘You’d better have something for me. If you’re not ready to dance, I’ll eat you up.’
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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.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It’s strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It’s not as interesting for them. She’s amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I’m not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, ‘Let’s talk about something that matters’.
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I like how TV used to be – ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ and ‘Play for Today’, instead of ‘Stars in Your Eyes’ and ‘Celebrity Come Cook With Me’ or whatever. I hate all that stuff.
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A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.
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It’s the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you’re able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
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Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.
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I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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It’s an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.
