Michael Stipe Quotes

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

I won't eat anything green.

I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.

It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.

I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you're in the public eye, the more you've got to... dress to impress.

The photographers are always around. Wherever I go, they start clicking incessantly. I am always like, 'At least give me a heads-up, as, many times, I look so disheveled. What will people think?'

I always like to think I eat quite carefully.

I don't like kale, so I don't eat it.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

If we don't want to eat vegetables, we don't eat 'em. If the left want to eat vegetables, they want everybody else to do what they do and not do what they don't do.

I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.

Being on camera, you have a responsibility to look good. If you don't, you'll hear about it.

I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

The absolutely worst thing that could happen to anybody in politics when they're appearing in public is to sweat.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.

For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.