Doug Stanhope Quotes

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.

If I could have the tabloids stop writing as much about me, and still get paid the same amount that I do, then I'd be quite happy. But I suppose it comes with the other things. If I'm not in the public eye, and then I'm not wanted, and I'm not getting endorsements, I'm not being talked about, my records aren't going to be bought.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

I'm very conscious of what I wear, and what I say. I know that if I go out, there will be 10 people who will notice me from head to toe.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

To be considered a celebrity, there's a certain lifestyle that comes with that.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.