David Crosby Quotes

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.

I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.

The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

I learned that the public and the press don't need to know everything about you, or they might turn on you.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?