Carrie Fisher Quotes

There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

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

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

I always find it really flattering when people are going to line up and wait in line for hours to tell you how cool you are and to take a picture with you. I always have time for that. It makes you feel good.

In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking away.

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

For me, Michael Jackson was a star. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are stars. They are the ones who own and carry stardom.

Winning 'I'm A Celeb' has massively affected my love life because it's very rare to meet someone that doesn't recognise me now because the jungle is so big.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I think 'Celebrity Big Brother' is one of the most important shows on TV because we get to see people for who they really, really are and you've only got to look at.

The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.

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 hate to consider myself a celebrity.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

I was offered a lot of reality shows in the past. I continue to be offered things like 'The Surreal Life.' I did one in 2002, right after the attacks on the World Train Center. It was called 'Celebrity Bootcamp.' It sounded exciting and cool when they presented it. When you get down to it, it was corny and cheesy.

I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh my God - are you Billie?'

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.