#celebrity

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#celebrity #family-relationships #memoir #nyc #stardom

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. ↗

— Steve Martin

#movies

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

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you! ↗

— Chrys Phillips

#be-yourself #celebrity-quote #chrys-phillips #chrys-phillips-quote #just-be-you

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue. ↗

— Willie Aames

#clue #know #people #think #you

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now. ↗

— Willie Aames

#celebrity #just #just because #mean #now

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? ↗

— Damon Albarn

#around #cartoon #celebrity #change #culture

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#average #average man #because #bit #celebrity

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#celebrity #entertainer #fond #i #i love

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on. ↗

— Adele

#about #celebrity #constantly #covers #even