Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

Being a celebrity is a business.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Celebrity is very weird.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

Celebrity is everything in this country.

I don't think the craze of celebs will ever die down.

I'm so not a celebrity.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

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