Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The media has had its fun with me.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!'

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.'

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.