David Beckham Quotes

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.

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.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

I never thought the media would be interested in me - this is very surreal.

It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of that to say things they think are funny.

It's not like people are going to be reading about us every day in the magazines.

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

No day is safe from news of you.

Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

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

I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you're alone. And it's quite a transition.

I've never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.

Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make a record.

Everything I do is major news.