Celebrity damages private life.
Tim Berners-Lee

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein

Celebrity hits like a bomb.
Jimmy Smits

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Minnie Driver

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Glenn Close

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.
Janice Dickinson

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

Celebrity is very weird.
Javier Bardem

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
Colin R. Davis

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.
Armistead Maupin

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
Claire Danes

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
Janeane Garofalo

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
Bianca Jagger

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
Vanessa Carlton

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
Todd Barry

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Roger Ebert

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
Phil Donahue