Neri Oxman Quotes

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

I don't really get star struck.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

There's a lot of players that get starstruck.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.