Meryl Streep Quotes

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

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

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

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

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

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 was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.