Celebrity Quotes
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Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'
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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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To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
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A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
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I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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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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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.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
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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 spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
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The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
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I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.
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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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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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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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My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.
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I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
