Intrusive Media Quotes

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

When I came to England I was quite surprised to see that you people have it too. But why people are so interested in other people's private lives is beyond me. It's like group hypnosis, or something - a giant distraction.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

What has surprised me most about being a celebrity is the fascination with pregnant women. After I had Rocco, the paparazzi came and sought me out. I never had that before. There's a whole industry, literally, based on people having children. I guess because you're changing, putting on weight. It makes me very uncomfortable. I didn't enjoy that much at all.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.

I wish that when we weren't filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'