Celebrity Quotes

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Paulo Coelho

Success, Great, United

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.
Stephen King

Smart, Serious, Whole

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

Nice, Fault, Bore

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Lord Byron

Known, Glad, Persons

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

Talent, Punishment, Merit

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Means, Read, Modern

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

Life, Hard, Person

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.
Adele

Music, Talk, Wanted

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
Puff Daddy

Faith, Good, God

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Talk, Fairness

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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Gossip, Greed, Apathy

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

Successful, Passion, Enough

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Often, Worth, Name

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.
Adam Sandler

Friends, Small, Play

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

Money, Famous, Learned

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Lady Gaga

Life, Judge, Young

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner

Creativity, Star, Involved

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Joan Rivers

Fool, Country, Child

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.
Alanis Morissette

Whole, Interested, Parties

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
Shia LaBeouf

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.
Brian Eno

Everything, Here, Television

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
Brian Eno

Ideas, Evolve, Formed

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
Billy Corgan

Status, Fit, Trendy

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
David Hockney

Human, Fashion, Problems

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.
David Duchovny

Death, Human, Country

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
Megan Fox

Become, Image, Owns

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.
Megan Fox

Down, Learned, Put

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
Kevin Costner

Beautiful, Woman, Closest

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.
Simon Mainwaring

Simple, Become, Social

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.
Susan Orlean

Power, Yourself, Understand

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