Celebrity quotes

- Rudy Ray Moore: I'm going to bet on myself. Ain't nobody going to put me on the screen except for me, and everybody I talk to say they want to see a "Dolemite" movie.
- Julius Bihari: Well, we understand. You're not supposed to make a movie for the five square blocks of people you know.
- Rudy Ray Moore: Well... that's fine with me. 'Cause... (continue)(continue reading)

Eddie Murphy - Rudy
Ivo Nandi - Julius Bihari

“I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.”
Amy Smart

“I could be a famous pop star too if I had talent and hair extensions.”
Jason Earles - Jackson Stewart

“VIP is always better. You just have to be willing to do the work.”
Julia Garner - Anna Delvey

“I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remembered who I was.”
Miles Teller - Andrew

“I get recognized one time, and I start thinking I’m Julia Roberts. I’m no VIP; I’m not even an IP; I’m just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.”
Cobie Smulders - Robin Scherbatsky

“You Are No One Until You're Talked About.”
Penn Badgley - Dan Humphrey

“You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.”
Stephen McHattie

“- Wyldstyle: You are not our leader.
- Batman: How many movies are made about you? None. I have nine movies, and three more currently in development.”
Elizabeth Banks - Wyldstyle
Will Arnett - Batman

“In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.”
Scoot McNairy

“Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.”
Jon Hamm

“The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.”
Jonny Lee Miller

“Great stars have great pride!”
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond

“The stars are ageless, aren't they?”
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond

“- Joe Gillis: I didn't know you were planning a comeback.
- Norma Desmond: I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.”
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond

“I ain't lying, man, people love me. Hey, if you play this song, I guarantee motherfuckers'll start hopping and squirming. When I used to play this record live, motherfuckers would actually faint. They would faint on the floor.”
Eddie Murphy - Rudy

“I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.”
Sally Hawkins

“- Zelda Spooner: I suppose you have never heard of the Beatles either.
- Dino: Oh sure. And I can sing better than all three of them.
- Zelda Spooner: There are four of them!
- Dino: Oh, haven't you heard? One of them got his hair caught in his guitar and was electrocuted.
- Zelda Spooner: You can make jokes about them but they're young and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Felicia Farr - Zelda
Dean Martin - Dino

“- Ida Kitaeva Laurel: I may live in Hollywood, but I am not Hollywood.
- Lucille Hardy: Ida, you are the epitome of Hollywood.”
Nina Arianda - Ida Kitaeva Laurel
Shirley Henderson - Lucille Hardy

“Recognizable, but sometimes people don't know my name.”

Ed Lauter

“I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.”
Julie Christie

“I don't like it when celebrities get voice work.”
John DiMaggio

“There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.”
Liev Schreiber

“I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired.”
Juan Antonio Bayona

“In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.”
King Vidor