Quotes About Publicity

Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

We live and work in a fishbowl, with rumors and accusations flowing constantly.

It was rough having my body develop, fluctuate and become fleshier in front of the 'Popworld' cameras.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

I'm followed everywhere - it has become normal for me.

Those people in 'Friends' could not go out without being hounded, shouted at or followed. Who wants that? I don't want that.

I've started to experience being followed around where I live, and it's never nice. With acting, you realize that it's part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you're sort of born into it.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.

When I fought Holmes, I feel I was a better fighter than he was. I was just so caught up in what was written about the fight - I got caught up in that whole thing.

I'm on all the channels. I'm on every channel. Not just Fox. I'm even on the channels that attack me all the time.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

I could have gone the route of the Jonas Brothers. Those guys can't live their lives freely. They have to put out this image that's totally fake.

If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some point be made public, then we can't have private lives. And if we can't have private lives, then we're not really free people.