Henry Cejudo Quotes

It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.

I would never be on a reality show.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

With publicity comes humiliation.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

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.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

Those who fill a public position must not be too thin-skinned in reference to comments made upon him.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

If I'm a busboy in Philadelphia, then I have to be careful about what I say. But if I'm a public tycoon like Jerry Seinfeld, and I got a billion dollars in my pocket, he's got to be nuts to wonder or worry about what people are going to think.

Whoever is in the spotlight, people are really quick to judge. I mean, there are a lot of kids coming up who've experienced that. You know, Justin Bieber, he's huge, and he experiences that. It's just the way the world works, unfortunately.

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.

Somebody the other day had a review, called me 'America's reprobate.' And I don't even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.

A lot of things have been said about me. People are going to talk, and that's a good thing; I want people to talk.

In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

I've always wanted to do what I'm doing for the news, but I hate the idea of being some sort of celebrity.

It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

People were saying on social media, 'He's going out too much' - I got judged. That was demoralising.

I'm very conscious that I've spent my whole adult life in the public eye.