Mary Cheney Quotes

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

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

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

My private life became public.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

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

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

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

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.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?

It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion but shouldn't they be following someone who has done something wrong?

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

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

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 manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

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.