Bob Woodward Quotes

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

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

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.

There are not many people in politics who ever want to get close to the heat.

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

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.