#celebrity

Fame cannot teach game. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#famous #game #life #life

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want. ↗

— Martha Grimes

#celebrity #film #hollywood #movies #power

They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#hero-worship #royalty #communication

Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#islam #muhammad #muslim #religion #religion

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#obsession

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#about #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #end

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#celebrity #coming #everything #go #go away

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#being #celebrity #i #polite #suppose

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#because #blame #celebrity #crazy #did

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#date #female #go #i #oh