The Miz Quotes

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire

I'm not comfortable with being honored, showered with appreciation. But it's always appreciated.

The same people that boo you are the same people who will ask you for a picture an an autograph.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.