Margot Kidder Quotes

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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.

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

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

It's so disappointing that I've become a tabloid story.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.