Penn Badgley Quotes

There is this power that comes with being famous.

You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It's strange.

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

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

Celebrity is very weird.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Celebrity has become an uncontrollable force, divorced from any sense of achievement.

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

The only difference is that I'm a celebrity, and I'm shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I'm like most women my age.

When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

For me, Michael Jackson was a star. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are stars. They are the ones who own and carry stardom.

No, fame has not changed Wizkid.

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

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

I'm so not a celebrity.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

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

I never had that star aura.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.