Jacob Weisberg Quotes

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

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 can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

No child should be born to work at the cost of his childhood and freedom..

The exploitation of children is both easy and profitable.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

Like growing up, I felt that Michael Jackson would dance for all the hours that god gave in a day!

Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What's the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.

Who didn't want to dance like Michael Jackson? I know I did.

Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson. That's how Will and I got to know each other.

When I was really, really young, I was in love with Michael Jackson.