Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

I've never had a very great public life.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!