Martin Bashir Quotes

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.

I walk out the house, and there's paparazzi. There's certain things I can't do if I wanted to date or go on a date. It's like, I have to worry about people taking pictures, and it's crazy.

Paparazzi always made me really uncomfortable.

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

I don't want to be a celebrity.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.