Unwanted Exposure Quotes

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

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.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Humans tend to underestimate the risks that stem from their behavior and overestimate those that are involuntary, including low level exposure to substances in the enviornment.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

The difficulty in connection with asking questions and obtaining information is that we might obtain information which I personally would rather not have…

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

My private life became public.

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

To be honest, I'm a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend's photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity... that's sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Having our privacy exposed is particularly crushing for the British - a nation for whom the phrase: 'How are you?' really means: 'Please say one word, then leave me alone.'