Jason Patric Quotes

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

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

For decades, Trump had no life independent from the media. He became a figure in the nation, and his a monitisable name - albeit quite a ludicrous one - because of his nonstop, relentless, shameless and often embarrassing courtship of the media.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.

After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.

There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.