Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
Pretty much every other question I get from fans is about my hair and beard.
Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.
If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.
There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.
There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, 'Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?' and I happily obliged.
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
America can't stop talking about Donald Trump. Even if we want to look away, we just can't.
Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.
I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because so much of the story is strange and sordid.
I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it.
When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth.
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.
There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.
I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.
