Jarvis Cocker Quotes

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

People are unbelievably giving and caring and understanding of me because of what I do for a living and because actors tend to get their asses kissed everywhere they go, so I can be extra-understanding in a relationship.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

I'm a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they're in TV shows or movies or they're writers or YouTubers. Their lives are not perfect.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.

People think your life's different because you've got money, you've got fame, so they don't treat you the same.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.

I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

I interviewed Kim Kardashian recently and had a conversation with her mother. A lot of people have various thoughts about Kim Kardashian, her mother and her sisters, but it is an incredibly well thought through concept and branding. Each of the daughters appeals to a different segment of the market.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.