Diana DeGarmo Quotes

Back when I was competing I had a lot of fans wanting my autograph, wanting to take my picture, but nothing like what my son is dealing with.

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

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

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.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

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'm not interested in the limelight.

I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

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

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

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

Celebrity is everything in this country.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.

There's male groupies - guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.

I don't want to be that famous.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

I love the attention. I love how I am so loved by the people, especially the girls.

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