Andy Lau Quotes

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Celebrity is very weird.

All celebrities are real people behind everything.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

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

The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

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.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …