Unwarranted Attention Quotes

I was told that someone on Facebook said something 'horrible' about me. Who cares? At least they're watching the show.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

My husband is very much of the ilk that expects to waited on hand and foot during the festive season.

It often happens that people when they visit a number of candidates, and observe the one that pays special heed to their attentions, leave off visiting the others, and little by little become real supporters of this man.

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.

Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.

When you focus the spotlight so much on one person, I think it's very, very dangerous.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.