Chris Hayes Quotes

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

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.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

I always teach celebrities, all my life.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

I don’t understand why Jackie O[nassis] thinks she’s so grand that she doesn’t owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big. You’d think she’d want to scheme and connive to get into history again.

I allow the public to believe that I have more influence with the King than I do in reality.

Celebrity has become an uncontrollable force, divorced from any sense of achievement.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.