Rush Limbaugh Quotes

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

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

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

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

I haven't really had any experiences, as far as having paparazzi sit outside of my house or following me around on the street. But, I actually don't really go to places where they do that, unless they knew where I lived or what kind of car I drive.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.