Jon Glaser Quotes

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

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

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying.

Everything I am is cause of Paris. She like paved the way for me. A girl like me who is literally famous for nothing - Paris Hilton taught us how to make that a business, you know what I mean?

Most people in TV are nice but there are some who just live in Egoville. They're not talented, they're just famous. I don't want to be like that.

It's really weird, people love filming, they love being on camera.

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

Yeah, um, I do twitter because I want people to, you know, get to know me, my fans, or my fans to get to know me, you know, just see what type of person I am. You know, hopefully be more on an intimate level with me as opposed to a distant level.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?