430 Quotes About Celebrity

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

This was New York, where famous people drank from the same trough you did,...

A single experience can make someone a celebrity, but it does not make them an authority.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

You're not really famous if anybody still likes you.

Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.

A woman who attempts a public career must expect to be treated as public property: what would be an intrusion on a domiciled gentlewoman is a tribute to me.

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.