Perez Hilton Quotes

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

I've become a brand.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

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