Laura Linney Quotes

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

All celebrities are real people behind everything.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

Have people like Kim Kardashian really fought their way to the top on their own? Or is that just the brand they want us to see. I don't buy it. I think we flourish by working together.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

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

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

What I've realized is celebrities are regular people.

Whenever you're on a reality show, you're the scum of the earth. You have no talent, you're a nothing, and you deserve nothing.

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.

Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.