Stephen Colletti Quotes

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

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

To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

My family is not so different from the rest of America. I think people love to see that, 'Oh, just because she's on television and in Hollywood, I can still relate to her.'

Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you're giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you've got to accept that. The trade-off between being on 'Love Island' and not being on 'Love Island' is very skewed into the positive.

Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

It seems I am more beloved on a reality show from an extended cable network than I am in social circles in my own city.

Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.

A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance.

Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.