Ed Sheeran Quotes

I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

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

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

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

Celebrity is very weird.

There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.

Outside my house in Delhi, you will find at least 10 guys waiting to catch a glimpse of me.

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just guys.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

The recognition thing started to happen in 2009 when 'Skins' season three had come out and we were on TV. It used to happen much more when we were in the height of our success, but I never really saw it as a chore or anything like that. It was just quite exciting - you had fans.

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

The fans make the person a star.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight's no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.