Annie Leibovitz Quotes

I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

Annie Leibovitz

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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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Me
  • Celebrity

• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Ideas

• 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
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Want
  • House
  • Know

• I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Celebrity
  • Possible
  • Far

• I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Professional
  • Celebrity

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Celebrity

• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Done
  • You
  • Celebrity

• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Work
  • Business

• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Amazing
  • Celebrity
  • Status

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Celebrity
  • Going
  • Brand

• I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Big

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Party
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Service

• When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Cooking
  • Celebrity
  • Hollywood

• I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People
  • Work
  • Celebrity

• There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • True
  • Quality
  • Celebrity

• 'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

  

  Jon Pardi

• I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Celebrity