Kirstie Alley Quotes

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

I never talk to tabloids.

What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

I don't stage my own publicity.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don't want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they've seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

A dozen men in good suits and women in silk dresses will circulate smoothly among the reporters, spouting confident opinions. They won't be just press agents trying to impart a favorable spin to a routine release. They'll be the Spin Doctors, senior advisers to the candidates

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.'