Quotes About Fame

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

When you are a public figure you will get love and hate both.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Sometimes, when you roll out of bed, you don't want to be photographed by the paparazzi. Usually you like to know when you're being photographed. I've learnt that, as a public figure, you have to up your game and be prepared. Ideally, you try not to roll out of bed without brushing your hair - just chuck a brush through it, make a little effort.

Being considered a public figure honestly makes me laugh.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a little while - several years, in my case - and then you come out again, hopefully.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.

I'm not in public life except by accident.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.