Salman Rushdie Quotes

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

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

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.