Toby Young Quotes

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.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.

As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.

I don't want people to treat me like a star or call me one.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

I never had that star aura.

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

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.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.