Alessia Cara Quotes

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

To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way to make a living. The idea that you're going to say, "Oh, I think I deserve to be paid attention to, and people should listen to what I have to say, and everybody should look at me," that's a little bit delusional in a way.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

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.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

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

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

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

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

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.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

It's so vacuous, this job. You're constantly looking at pictures of yourself, talking about yourself. Then I come back home, and all my mates want to talk about is me because I've been hanging out with Elton John and stuff.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

Nothing demonstrates a celebrity's basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one's dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.

I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.