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Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

Being a celebrity is a business.

Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.