Rodney King Quotes

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.

Yeah, well I've had a record deal for a long time so I'm kinda used to the cameras and the people, I'm used to dealing with peoples' opinions.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

It's hard being in the public eye.