Julie Burchill Quotes

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

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

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

Celebrity is very weird.

I love taking advantage of red carpets.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

There are many good-looking actors.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

I don't think the craze of celebs will ever die down.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.