Justine Bateman Quotes

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Celebrity is very weird.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

The It-girl tag annoys me.

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Celebrities are the doormats to power.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives of getting maximum attention for yourself, sometimes align, and at a certain point, they stop aligning, and you just keep going with the incentives for maximum attention for yourself.