Diablo Cody Quotes

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

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

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.