Carrie Underwood Quotes

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

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?

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

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

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

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'm not interested myself in personality news.

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

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in quotation marks. The first thing that we learned in ethics is that you better have it right. If you're putting quotation marks around something, it better be exactly what that person said.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

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

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

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.

You won't see me on TMZ shaving my hair and yelling at the camera guy.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.