Perez Hilton Quotes

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.

First of all, there's the celebrity thing. Like, who are you here for, are you dating me or are you trying to date my dad? These men either just want to be there for one thing and don't want to stay for the real relationship part or they just want to ride the wave and be bougie and bomb and have their picture taken and do all of that.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Who profits from this? Cui bono?