Taylor Swift Quotes

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.