Celebrity Sayings – Quotations About Celebrity-Hood

by allinspiration.com

“Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says ‘no.’”
– Demi Lovato

“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.”
– Denzel Washington

“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.”
– Diablo Cody

“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.”
– Drew Carey

“A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market… truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.”
– Elle Macpherson

“I loathe celebrity. I can’t stand it.”
– Elton John

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”
– Emily Dickinson

“The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.”
– Eric Clapton

“I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.”
– Erykah Badu

“I love being an entertainer – not really fond of being a celebrity.”
– Erykah Badu

“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.”
– Fred Allen

“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.”
– Gail Porter

“My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.”
– Gail Porter

“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.”
– Gary Coleman

“Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.”
– George Michael

“Celebrity is death – celebrity – that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor.”
– Glenn Close

“There’s no reason that just because you’re a celebrity you can’t write.”
– Gloria Estefan

“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.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We’re going on a downward spiral.”
– Heather Mills

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.”
– Henry A. Kissinger

“If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.”
– Iain Duncan Smith

“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.”
– Irvine Welsh

“The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.”
– Jack Nicholson

“By the time of the ’90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.”
– James Surowiecki

“Today a celebrity sex video isn’t a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it’s a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.”
– James Wolcott

“I’m a real person, and I’m angry. I’m trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism – I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I’ll put it on my shoulders. I’ll charge it to my account.”
– Jamie Foxx

“I’ve always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.”
– Jane Pauley

“Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it’s shifted.”
– Janice Dickinson

“My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it’s respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It’s not a sprinter’s approach. It’s more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.”
– Jason Bateman

“Celebrity is very weird.”
– Javier Bardem

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