Neneh Cherry Quotes

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

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

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

I'm so not a celebrity.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

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

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

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.

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

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

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.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

Does celebrity interest anyone? It's definitely not appealing to me. I think anyone who's had any real exposure to it would probably regret ever having even entertained the idea.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.