Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

Fame is a magnifying glass

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

I'm used to people talking about me.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

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

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.