Perez Hilton Quotes

There are two things that you never turn down: Sex and an invitation to appear on television.

Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

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.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

Celebrity is very weird.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

I think a lot of people look to me as a sort of lifestyle icon.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.