Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

You don't have to be outlandish and saying crazy things and get out of yourself to get headlines or attention.

People say that I do things for publicity. But I will do the things I do as long as I have media support.

I know a lot of actors use media just to garner publicity. I keep away from all this.