Melissa Joan Hart Quotes

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.

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

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

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

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

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!

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

I've been very aware with the fact that being in the public eye, being on TV, being cast on 'Total Divas,' I'm setting myself out there for criticism, but I have to know in my heart, what I know is right.

When you're in the limelight, you can't always lash out.

Being star kids, there are certain expectations to live up to. There's a certain pressure from the public. And, if your film doesn't work, it's even worse.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.