Unwanted Publicity 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.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

I did 'Beetlejuice,' and it was a big movie, but it didn't help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch.

Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Any time I say anything about Dream Theater... Honestly, I'd rather not talk about it. Because no matter what I say, it will be twisted and... So I kind of have made myself promise that I won't talk about Dream Theater anymore.

I don't like being at food festivals and have someone from some weird cable access show that's all about lifestyle get in my face with a microphone and wants to know which party I'm going to later... That just is pointless kind of stuff to me.

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

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.

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.

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face.