Andy Warhol Quotes

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

One cannot think of him [Theodore Roosevelt] except as part of the public scheme, performing on the public stage.

If I'm a busboy in Philadelphia, then I have to be careful about what I say. But if I'm a public tycoon like Jerry Seinfeld, and I got a billion dollars in my pocket, he's got to be nuts to wonder or worry about what people are going to think.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

It is the public which turns a raja into ''rank'' and a hero into a zero.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I am the most popular man in Israel.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

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

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.