David Spade Quotes

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

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.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

I don't do celebrity.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

I don't think about being a public persona too much - I just get on with what I'm doing.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.