Dionne Warwick Quotes

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

Celebrity damages private life.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

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.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

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

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

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

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.