Anthony Holden Quotes

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

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.

The media has had its fun with me.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

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

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I never read anything that's written about me.

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

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

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

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

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

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

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.

I don't read everything written about me.

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