Julie Burchill Quotes

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody 'journalists' look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

In L.A., the waiters think they're stars. Everybody's always trying to pretend that they see stars every day, so there tends to be a false blas' about celebrity sightings in L.A. In some ways, that's a good thing, because it allows you to walk around.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.

I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.

Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.

Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.