Tony Wilson Quotes

I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

I don't know if I'll ever get used to walking into the local shop or a local restaurant and having three or four people recognize me.

You can be the best coach in the world and if you go to dinner in New York, nobody knows you, but here in Syracuse it’s very different.

When I was first asked for an autograph, I felt so uncomfortable that I just wrote, 'Tig's Autograph,' and from then on, that's what I write when I sign my name.

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.

I never wanted to be a celebrity.

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I'm not a celebrity or anything.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

I am more popular than many politicians, and even superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

It's amazing and different being a celebrity in D.C.

When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

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

Fame, for me, is different. Fame, for me, is not seeing myself on big billboards: it is when I go on a street and people connect to me. If I going to walk on the street, I know I can get 100,000 people following me.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.