Celebrity Status Quotes

• I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, Bears, Difficult

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

  Camryn Manheim

  Hatred

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• I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

  William Baldwin

  Dirty, Hands, Nasty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

  Bo Derek

  Funny, Fashion, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

  Billy Corgan

  Class, Kind, Fit

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• My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

  Mr. T

  Opportunity, People, Leader

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• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, Musician, Imagine

  The Providence Journal-Bulletin Interview, www.imdb.com. February 13, 1996.

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• I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Rap, Clothes

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.

  Eric Abetz

  Children, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

  George Dzundza

  Grateful, Opportunity, Focus

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• What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Soul, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Hate, Book

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• My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mom, House, Matter

  "Vinny Guadagnino on His MTV Talk Show: 'My Mom's Gonna Be the Star'" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status.

  Ron Galella

  Photography, Stars, Icons

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• It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

  Shirley Manson

  Integrity, Challenges, Trying

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Mind, Red, Kind

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