Aaliyah Quotes

It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

Sometimes, the best shots you can put up are the ones when you don't shoot the ball - you gotta give your legs a rest sometimes.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I love being a mum. Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I'm shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.

For me, making schedules are critical to make sure we attend to all the needs of the kids and our family. After adding everyone's schedule on the calendar, I make sure that every day I have some sacred time for myself so I can recharge.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

I think it is important to do good work and last longer than to do lot of work and burn out quickly.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.