Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
quote by Tracey Gold
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Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
quote by Glenn Close
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I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.
quote by Sophia Bush
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I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
quote by Milo Ventimiglia
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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
quote by Charlie Kaufman
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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that's about how much you put yourself out there. It's not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy and never let our public persona get out of hand.
quote by Reese Witherspoon
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It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
quote by Amanda Seyfried
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Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
quote by Margot Kidder
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I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.
quote by Martin Milner
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Behind the Scenes
The actor struts his little hour,
Between the limelight and the band;
The public feel the actor's power,
Yet nothing do they understand
Of all the touches here and there
That make or mar the actor's part,
They never see, beneath the glare,
The artist striving after art.
To them it seems a labour slight
Where nought of study intervenes;
You see it in another light
When once you've been behind the scenes.
For though the actor at his best
Is, like a poet, born not made,
He still must study with a zest
And practise hard to learn his trade.
So, whether on the actor's form
The stately robes of Hamlet sit,
Or as Macbeth he rave and storm,
Or plays burlesque to please the pit,
'Tis each and all a work of art,
That constant care and practice means --
The actor who creates a part
Has done his work behind the scenes.
poem by Andrew Barton Paterson
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If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
quote by Alfonso Ribeiro
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
quote by Ben Kingsley
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I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
quote by Gwyneth Paltrow
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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.
quote by Jonny Lee Miller
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I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.
quote by Orlando Bloom
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Diagnosis of our Times
What can you say of folk today
Who worship gods with feet of clay?
Their hearts are blind and their minds are numb
As they chew the nation's chewing-gum,
Enslaved by tabloids and T.V.
And the culture of Celebrity.
These people all are taken in
By words of reassuring spin
And politicians who expect
Them to be 'politically correct'.
They dream their pointless lives away
In an age of spiritual decay.
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
As long as people keep buying tabloids, they'll keep harassing people in the public eye. They'll make up stories.
quote by Scarlett Johansson
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Wellcome
Tabloids, Henry Wellcome often said,
are better than a liquid or a powder;
by tabloids he meant not material read
in broadsheets, or the gutter press that’s louder
than New York Times or NPR, but pills
we tend to take unless we need injections
to get relief from all the pains and ills
that tickle tabloids’ major predilections.
Inspired by an article on the exhibition of the collection of medical memorabilia gathered by Henry Wellcome, exhibited at the Wellcome Collection at 183 Euston Road, London (Ed Rothstein, New York Times,1/29/08 ('One Man's Jigsaw Puzzle, Capturing an Odd Word') ,
1/29/08
poem by Gershon Hepner
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Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
quote by Mortimer Zuckerman
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