Celebrity Fascination Quotes

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman.

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.

I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

I feel bad about that, that I worship celebrities... but their moods create weather.

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

I am obsessed by Kim Kardashian; I do try to find out what Kim's up to.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.

It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.