David Cassidy Quotes

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.