Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater not a real person.

Well I knew I wanted to be an actor and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

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.

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.

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.

Man I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were no matter how much celebrity I had everything was just stacked up against me.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity but I'm too classy to bring that up.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity this other country.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.