Don’t try to make yourself marketable, you’ll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you’ll be at the top.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill

We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They’re living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start...

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t...

It’s a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he...

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Three quarters of respectable England hates you.””Half,” Sebastian replied with a smile. “It’s really only half. Judging by my correspondence, it may be as little as forty-eight percent. And of those, only a small number...

A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he’s seen often, he’s just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.

When everything gets answered, it’s fake.

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the...

I’ve always said [this] is the lowest form of journalism, and I see my job is to be entertaining. And I guess it’s my curse, because I did it in a different way, they kept...

That girl has done things to your head.’He pats my back, ‘Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.

There’s an addictive quality to fame and when your celebrity starts to wane, people get a real fear about that, … And that’s why I think sometimes you see people who will put themselves on...

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

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.

I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you!

Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.

Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring,...

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up

I don’t in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I’m not.