David Beckham Quotes

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Paparazzi always made me really uncomfortable.

It's hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just were not documented the way they are now.

I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

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

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

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

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.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

The paparazzi don't care about me.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.