Paul Heyman Quotes

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

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.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

People do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but What can he do? If he has any useful art, he is welcome, and if he exercises it, and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him; but a mere Man of Quality, who on that account, wants to live upon the Public, by some Office or Salary, who will be despised and disregarded.

The reason the public loves me is that they understand everything that I do. The reason they love you is that they understand nothing of what you do.

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

Value can mean a price. Value can mean exclusivity. Value can mean, 'I can't get it anywhere else, and this is really something I want.'

Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run.

Scarcity is a good sales tactic if you are selling something people want.

I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody.

For me, the things that are luxurious are things that are rare. It's not really about how much something costs or whether it's 'limited edition'; it's about how special it is.