Quotes About Media

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

Being in the public eye and seeing yourself on film and in photographs, that can be tough.

I know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

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

Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

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

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

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

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

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 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.

Look, when you're in the public life you have to understand, the press - good bad or indifferent - is going to chase you on occasion. When they do, you give them an opportunity to do their job and then you generally get the respect that they'll move out of your way but not always.