#celebrity

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me. ↗

— Marat Safin

#celebrity #commercials #could #go #i

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#celebrity thing #me #new #star #thing

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too. ↗

— David Hasselhoff

#being #celebrity #difference #i #i think

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fêted these people and fed their vanity. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#narcisissism #pride #vanity #age

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#british #celebrity #fame #irony #romance

Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something. celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion. ↗

— James Bradley

#heroes #insperational #courage