Joan Jett Quotes

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

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?

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

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

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

I don't read tabloids. I just don't go there.

It's the tabloids, with their intense commercial need to get scoops to bring in readers, that run a regime of fear, where reporters are bullied, shouted at. That's where things go wrong.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.