Shelley Winters Quotes

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

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

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

Celebrity has become an uncontrollable force, divorced from any sense of achievement.

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.

People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

I don't think the craze of celebs will ever die down.

I hate the showbiz scene.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

I know what it's like to grow up in Hollywood.

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.

We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless - Jade Goody, all that type of people - and it really gets to me. I'm not interested, I'm a musician. It's not about being famous and being a celeb.

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

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.