Eva Mendes Quotes

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

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

I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.