Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Sometimes I think nobody is looking - and then there's still a picture being taken. There are just some complete idiots who follow us everywhere.

That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

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.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

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

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

The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

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.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.