Justine Bateman Quotes

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

I may have a very visible job that allows more than a million viewers to invite me and my fellow anchors into their homes every morning, but that doesn't make me famous, nor does my job entitle me to any kind of special privileges.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

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

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

I'm so not a celebrity.

That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

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.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.