Doug Stanhope Quotes

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashian's divorce before she did.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.