Jack Gleeson Quotes

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

If you have never experienced life under a microscope, you need to understand that those who live a public life are no longer seen as real persons -- human beings. Rather, they are objects to be examined, manipulated, ridiculed and sometimes even hated

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

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!

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

So much has changed since the '70s and '80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We'd go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there's a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.