Many celebrities have risen to the peak of their field through hard work and dedication. As a celeb, you can get special treatment wherever you go as well as become richer. However, you can also attract stalkers and have no privacy if you are famous.

Listed below are 15 quotes about celebrities you cannot afford to miss.

“Don’t say: ‘can’t do that’, ‘won’t do that’. I’ve never thought in that way about work. The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I’m one of the least competitive people you’ll ever meet. Except with myself.” – Daniel Craig

“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.” – John C. Maxwell

“I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet.” – Lady Gaga

“If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” – Johnny Depp

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“I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.” – Lady Gaga

“Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, God-like, feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it.” – Will Smith

“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.” – Russell Crowe

“I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.” – Heidi Klum

“When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, “Thanks for being a fan.” Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing.” – Jarod Kintz

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“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” – Fred Allen

“Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he’s getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“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.” – Adam Sandler

“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.” – Joan Crawford

“I don’t give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I’m only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.” – Christian Louboutin

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