Drew Pinsky Quotes

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

I would never be on a reality show.

I get it that lots of people want to get on TV. If you can get cast, God bless you. Just please don't do it by bashing my family.

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

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.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

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 don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

All the Kardashians care about is the media, money, and being on camera.

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.