Nicholas Haslam Quotes

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.

I just want to be rich and famous.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

I always wanted to be a star.

There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

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

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?