J. K. Rowling Quotes

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

Even if I sneeze, it would make headlines.

That's exactly what Octomom is: a carnival attraction.

I feel like on the 'Housewives,' my family stuff was really out there.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

It's weird when people are just staring at you because the thing is, people are not quite sure ... I get a lot of: "Are you off the TV?" It's funny. I don't and I don't get to the sort of clubs where people expect to see you.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

No day is safe from news of you.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

I don't want to be in the press.