George Stroumboulopoulos Quotes

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.