#celebrity

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#always #amazed #attraction #both #celebrity

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

— Hilary Duff

#drawing #gossip #i #image #push

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ↗

— Lord Byron

#glad #know #known #many #persons

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #blowing #celebrity #crazy #figuring

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#because #being #celebrity #constantly #great

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#become #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #did

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' ↗

— Kevin Costner

#call #celebrity #club #did #fame

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#religious-extremism #zealotry #nature

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#obscurity #sex