Quotes About Public

I never have any idea how my opinions will be received, and more often than not I'm surprised when anything I say is controversial.

I've received love in both politics and filmdom.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.

I've done many rallies and it's been super-charged, highly charged. People are very receptive.

Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public.

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?

No one recognises me in the street.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

No one used to recognise me at all but now it's different. So many more people come up to me, all on the back of playing for England.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

When everybody recognises you, going out is difficult. But you deal with it.

I can walk around, no problem. Sometimes, someone will recognise me and ask for a picture.

I don't really miss the life around EastEnders because it's so intense. It's so well-watched that... it's quite a lot... a lot of people recognise you. It kind of takes over your life.