Top 1200 Celebrity Quotes & Sayings

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

A celebrity can gain attention in our otherwise busy lives. And celebrity sells.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. If anything I'm a minor celebrity or a TV star or whatever.

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

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

People don't like it when you make fun of a celebrity. When you make fun of a celebrity, you'll hear from really loyal fans of that celebrity.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I don't know what the other celebrity's lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I'm always alone.

What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

Coming to LA and working with brands connected with celebrity was a very different experience. I thought it was interesting to work with someone like Justin Timberlake and to work with the phenomenon of celebrity in the U.S., and also to take on the challenge of taking a celebrity brand and adding credibility to it.

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.

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Obviously, as with any business, a celebrity can only add so much to a brand's image or vision. So the product must be in keeping with the celebrity's talents.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

I got offered loads of reality shows, including 'I'm A Celebrity' and 'Celebrity Big Brother.'

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

There are still people, obviously, who are stopping you and want a selfie because they need to justify their own lives by being in close proximity to a celebrity... but those are minor with me. I'm not a major celebrity.