I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

In Los Angeles as I gained and lost celebrity then gained it again I often found myself wondering why I out of thousands like me had become famous.

The F-word is 'famous ' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star ' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous ' 'celebrity' and 'star ' I think are misused.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

We need to teach our kids because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment that however rich you are however famous you are however glamorous you are everyone has to live by the same rules.

I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I know I have this level of celebrity of fame international national whatever you want to call it but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

I have a great job writing for 'The Office ' but really all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is like Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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

I can't see any value in being a celebrity famous for being famous.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Celebrity to me is not a thing to seek.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich beautiful and famous more authority than they deserve.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

I just want to make music I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces you know constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

But you know we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know we've had our issues but we've had great cause for celebration.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter niece etc. and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

At this time when I turn 50 because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old and so I'm celebrating for them too.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.