Celebrity Quotes on Fame

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.-Fred A. Allen

You're always a little dissapointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.-Mel Brooks

It is dangerous to let the public behing the scenes. They are easily dissillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.-W. Somerset Maugham

People want you to be crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.-Leonardo Dicaprio

It's hard to stay anonymous is the spotlight. If you don't want strangers to recognize you in public, don't perform on stage or in front of a camera in the first place. Either stay in the shadows or stop complaining about the fame you asked for.- Duane Alan Hahn

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.-George Clooney

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.-Daniel J. Boorstin

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being 'somebody', to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see of be seen.-John Updike

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.-Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The professional celebrity, male and female. is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition in America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.-C. Wright Mills

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.-Henry Kissinger

Many actors are like migrant farm workers praying for steady work. But give them a TV series and little fame, and their eyes are on the door before the second season is over.-Duan Alan Hahn

I was doing it because it was what my parents told me I had to do, and by the time I was old enough to make a choice not to, everybody in the world knew who I was. So, I had to go "OK, now...I'me going to do this career because I chose to do this career.-Corey Feldman