Susan Ford Quotes

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

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.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

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.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

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

I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

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.

If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.

No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, 'Why would I tell you? I don't see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.'

I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.

Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.