Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

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

Fame should be left to the film stars.

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.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.