Robin Leach Quotes

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I never mean to make a headline where it's like, 'Chris Long unsure.' I never try to make it sound like I'm under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.

I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

The only group that is less self-aware than Hillary Clinton is the media.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody 'journalists' look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?

I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because anything the BBC does is always in the spotlight.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

I get to know whatever is written about me through social media. But I don't take it seriously, because if someone has taken out time to cook up stories about me, I must have done something right.

We did 'The Conversation' on the Zeus network because we already are on TV and we felt like us being our own therapists could work. We tried it. We just gave it a shot since we already on blast and everybody creating their own stories about what they see. Just tried to give it a shot. Did it help? I don't know.

The basketball stuff has been the easiest part. The stuff that comes out of it, you lose a game and everyone talks about it on TV the next day. They may say some things that you may not agree with.

I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.