Louise Wilson Quotes

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

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

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.