I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'
For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
People approach you in a different way when you're a celebrity - some are nice, some are not nice.
If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.
My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.
The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.
I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.
I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay attention from time to time.
The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.
There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process.
I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.
I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.
I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.