Michelle Beadle Quotes

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I don't think I have any celeb crushes!

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

I had Madonna parties; I dressed like Madonna, and I had all of her records because we had records back then. I knew all of her lyrics; I was obsessed with her movies and the whole thing.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

I was a teen idol in Latin America.

Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.

I was in love with Ryan Phillippe. I mean, like, who wasn't?

Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - more than he's really allowed to be, because he's a Unicorn and very rare.

I'm a huge 'Dragon Ball Z' fan, so when they were trying to make a live-action movie, I was, like, 'No!'

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.

The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

I am in love with every member of One Direction.

Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.