Nicole Richie Quotes

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I know everything I do is going to be magnified.

I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.