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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think that it's their fault.
henry kissinger— Quoted in Reader's Digest, Apr 1985.
Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.
warren farrell— p. 191. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.
John Patrick McEnroe— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized
fred allen— Treadmill to Oblivion
I think that politicians are attracted at first by the celebrity but once they meet him, they find that he is outstandingly capable.
bono— Jeffrey Sachs, Head Economist for the UN Millenium Development Goals. (1999)
I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.
jimmy carr— Charles Hutchinson (November 19, 2004) "Preview: Jimmy Carr , Grand Opera House, York November 20", North Yorkshire County Publications.
A lot of the sentiment that acting should be about an art form rather than mass entertainment and celebrity is at the core of Fenn’s attitude to the business.
sherilyn fenn— Jessica Sully, quoted in her article "Everybody's Mad about Sherilyn Fenn". Movie (Australia). January 1993. p.18-20.
Acts and Monuments made Foxe England's first literary celebrity.
john foxe— Thomas S. Freeman, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 20, s.n.
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. celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.
joseph gordon levitt— The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
Adjusting my thick glasses and dropping my half-Chinese Austin Powers accent, I futilely try to defend myself (noting there's nothing worse in the world than being screamed at by a bunch of female celebrity impersonators).
harmon leon— An Imposter Impersonator, p. 78.
For a man complaining about the agony of celebrity, he wasn't doing anything to stop perpetuating his image as America's premier outlaw journalist.
william mckeen— Chapter 13, Celebrity, p. 224
Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image from the Lynndie England photographs of a hooded Iraqi prisoner with wires attached to his outstretched arms] You're looking at him. Screw this guy. ... [He's a] bad guy.
dennis miller— 22 June 2004
A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
kate moss— Of the flood of minor celebrities; quoted in the Evening Standard, Tue 1 May 2012, p.16
Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
paul newman— Quoted in Craig Modderno, "Newman remains animated at 81," Reuters (2006-06-12)
Write poetry for its own sake — not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it.
Robert Southey— Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837; Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 140.
I would love to have us all psychologically evaluated and let a court decide. If he was not a celebrity, everybody would think he was a crazy father of an actress, but he somehow has them saying, "We know this man, we've seen him in films, he can't be crazy."
jon voight— Voight's daughter Angelina Jolie commenting on the strained relationship with her father. [7]
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), Chapter 3, p. 57.
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.
jacques barzun— "A Surfeit of Fine Art" (1986), p. 127
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices . I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
lord byron— Letter to Thomas Moore (9 April 1814)
At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
elaine dundy— Life Itself (2001)
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity, you can't write.
gloria estefan— Reuters News Agency (October 10, 2005)
Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
warren farrell— p. 207. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.
stella vine— Eyre, Hermione. "Completing my new show was the only thing that saved me from suicide", The Independent, (2007-07-15)On the celebrities she paints.
When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
billy childish— Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
— Childish's name is the most prominent in Tracey Emin's Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, appliquéd names in a tent (destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire).
celebrity has merged human institutions into a “much-of-a-mulchness”, such that the values surrounding political leaders and infamous sex workers are becoming increasingly indistinguisable.
yakoub islam— Intergalactic Fame (29 July 2011)
celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.
john updike— Ch. 6 (Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989))
The celebrity Centre is just like, you know, the stable datum of like, growth and sanity, and growing as an artist, and, um, it's just like I'm always safe when I come here.
— Jenna Elfman — quoted in A&E Staff (December 14, 1998). "Inside Scientology". A&E Investigative Reports (A&E Network). Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
