“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a ce...” — Jay McInerney Quote

“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”

“I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.”

“You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.”

“I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.”

“I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.”

“I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.”