Spike Lee Quotes

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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.

As a result of my husband's position, there is newfound media attention to my every move. I did not imagine this level of scrutiny, but I understand it is now part of my life.

It's hard being in the public eye.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

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.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

I'm in the public eye.

Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what's next. It's made me grow a much thicker skin.