Simon Rex Quotes

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

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

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

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

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.

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

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