Alphonso Jackson Quotes

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

Fame is a magnifying glass

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

The more well-known you are, you become a target.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

Celebrity has become an uncontrollable force, divorced from any sense of achievement.

Few individuals enter into public life who would not be wealthier and happier as private citizens—but then they would not be known, would not see their names in the newspaper, except for raising a curious calf or a mammoth cabbage.

… a public personage.

I don't necessarily want to be famous.