The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis PresleyTag: celebrity
Celebrities are like infants. Neither can wipe their own ass.
Michael BrianI've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
Lady GagaSeeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hillarys had once been mentionable in the same breath. On a first-lady goodwill tour of Asia in April 1995—the kind of banal trip that she now claims as part of her foreign-policy 'experience'—Mrs. Clinton had been in Nepal and been briefly introduced to the late Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest. Ever ready to milk the moment, she announced that her mother had actually named her for this famous and intrepid explorer. The claim 'worked' well enough to be repeated at other stops and even showed up in Bill Clinton's memoirs almost a decade later, as one more instance of the gutsy tradition that undergirds the junior senator from New York.
Sen. Clinton was born in 1947, and Sir Edmund Hillary and his partner Tenzing Norgay did not ascend Mount Everest until 1953, so the story was self-evidently untrue and eventually yielded to fact-checking. Indeed, a spokeswoman for Sen. Clinton named Jennifer Hanley phrased it like this in a statement in October 2006, conceding that the tale was untrue but nonetheless charming: 'It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add.'
Perfect. It worked, in other words, having been coined long after Sir Edmund became a bankable celebrity, but now its usefulness is exhausted and its untruth can safely be blamed on Mummy.
Tag: politics lies foreign-policy united-states celebrity new-york 1995 2008 1947 asia mount-everest bill-clinton 1953 2006 united-states-senate hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 first-lady first-lady-of-the-united-states edmund-hillary jennifer-hanley nepal tenzing-norgay
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.
Stephen FryTag: celebrity zealotry religious-extremism
Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books" -- Just like the quote!
Tag: celebrity good-advice credit-and-debt
It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
Marilyn MonroeFamous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.
Robert DeCoteauTag: humor funny celebrity humorous celebrities quotes
It would be easier if they named jeans for celebrities so you'd know exactly what you were getting without even having to try them on. 'Mary-Kate' for itty-bitty jeans that come with a cartoonishly oversized caramel latte cup; 'Angelina Jolie' for jeans that are sold with two tiny Cambodian orphans stitched right into the back pockets; 'Katie Holmes', jeans which spell out 'help me!' in the fabric if you look very closesly; and 'Dina Lohan', self-promoting stage mom of Lindsay, for jeans that look OK from a distance, but when you get closer, are actually transparent.
For men, there could be 'David Hasselhoff' jeans, made entirely of cheese, and 'John Mayer' jeans which, when removed, become instantly bored and walk themselves to to the house of next 'it' girl in Hollywood.
I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.
George ClooneyTag: celebrity privacy sharing paparazzi personal-life
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