Pete Doherty Quotes

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

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.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

The media has had its fun with me.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

I don't like the media attention.

I can be serious, but there's got to be a lighter side.

I never thought the media would be interested in me - this is very surreal.

The media should be ready to cover every event at the Oberois' residence. If Vivek's dog has dysentery tomorrow, we should be prepared to hear Vivek talk about it on camera for three hours.

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

I never read anything that's written about me.

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.

I'm a very serious guy. I try to counter that predisposition of being a serious person with all this tomfoolery that I love to do so much. I really enjoy it; that's why I do it. I don't like the way I am... perhaps my natural default is to be that way, and I don't like that.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

I guess what Kenny Omega is, even though the image is something that was given to me by New Japan and then tweaked by me, it's just me, Tyson Smith. Yeah, that's me, just a guy that likes to joke around when he doesn't have to be serious. And when he has to be serious, he's really serious!

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.