Erica Jong Quotes

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

I need to be highlighted. I need to be the main attraction of entertainment.

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

My stats don't even need to be said, but I'll say them anyway. I'm a 14-time champion. I'm a two-time Slammy award winner. I've done movies. I host my own show. How much more do you want in an athlete, in a star, than The Miz?

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.