Michael Hastings Quotes

Celebrity is very weird.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.