Richard Quest Quotes

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Whenever I Instagram or Vine something of myself, I like to go extreme and be crazy and silly.

I consider myself a selfie specialist.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do a photo.' I'm not anti-selfie, but I like a classic photograph.

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

Anyone who supports your work, I like having the opportunity to thank them for that, and I think also Twitter provides an opportunity for people in the public eye to give a faithful account of who they are.

I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice problem to have.