Celebrities Quotes (457 Quotes)



    A celebrity can help put a spotlight on a problem, a crisis and a need, ... I'll be sending a check to the Salvation Army. I'm going to do whatever I can.

    When you're a celebrity on your own there's a certain amount of acknowledgment. When two people who are both famous get together it becomes a bigger thing. It almost becomes bigger than the couple,




    I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.


    In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.

    I never thought of celebrity. I'm just happy it found a home and that maybe people will find beauty and grace in it. ... I hope that it somehow touches them and gives them something they can take away with them. That's the goal of an artist.



    It was a whirlwind trip of exciting things. Brian was a celebrity and he was treated as a homecoming hero. He arrived at the airport at 330 in the morning and there were 14-20 camera crews waiting for Brian. He was given two motorcades and a tickertape parade.

    The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

    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 over animation. One can either see or be seen.


    You can be cynical about it and say it ups the ante of celebrity uniqueness. But it does enhance the stature of a celebrity because it shows the person is open-minded and cosmopolitan enough to take in children with great needs from around the world.

    Just set aside Downey's celebrity. The reality is there are just so many beds available in the California Department of Corrections, ... It doesn't make sense for us to send someone like Downey to prison. The ultimate goal is to help him overcome his addiction.

    We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity everything gets only fifteen minutes.


    The first meetings to select the first 1,500 stars for the (Hollywood) Walk of Fame were there, in the late '50s. After (nearby) Greek Theatre performances, celebrities would be around. It was a busy place.

    Know-it-all liberal celebrities are in our faces every day, telling people how to live, what to buy, and often how to vote. Children need to understand that just because these people show up on television doesn't mean they know what's best for the rest of America. In fact, it's usually quite the opposite

    Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

    I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

    I seriously wonder if he would go to a premier of a movie about his life because he would have other things to do. He was not into the pomp and circumstance of celebrity or fame. He was into fulfilling his destiny of making art. And I think he would have been happy and bemused, but he would have probably been on his way to Horn Island.




    I don't expect to fit in right away but I do sense that the fashion world is rooting for me, too. I'm not being treated like a celebrity wannabe fashion designer. But even if I was, it doesn't really matter because I'm doing this for me ... but it does feel really good when you have a hit,

    The most contentious exchange occurred when Wolff went toe-to-toe with Min over their respective magazines' role in celebrity culture. Some people are journalists, and what we get paid to do is try to find facts. Other people, and I mean no disrespect whatsoever, are in the business of selling magazines, ... Your mission is singular to entertain your readers.

    I think it's very important for Lynn Swann, because right now his entire candidacy is based on his celebrity. He kind of needs the party to coalesce behind him.


    The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

    There are a few golfers that (tournament directors) hope and pray they get and Sergio is one of them to me, ... We're excited because he's a worldwide celebrity.




    All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too. And what else remains if not the piece of love that once existed in this great il or in this dream called life.

    Imagine of all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on library shelves. Andsince women are a majority of the populationwed all be married to Mel Gibson.


    There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.

    I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.



    We just want the opportunity to offer him to come and visit the game. We are in no way expecting a 100 per cent hit. The point is just to reach out to the celebrity community, some of which are already rabid hockey fans and some who we are trying to bring into the sport and have fun with it.


    Number one, we have a much better team, a team that went to a bowl game, and we have a celebrity as a coach. Number two, we have a brand-new TV contract with extensive TV opportunities. That's helped a lot.


    I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

    Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.




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