Robert Winston Quotes

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

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

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

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 the idea of famous people.

Celebrity is very weird.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

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

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

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.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

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

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

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

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

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Some people call me a publicity hound.