Johnny Vegas Quotes

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

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

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

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.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

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.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

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

Celebrity is very weird.