Joan Rivers Quotes

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react?

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?