Tulisa Quotes

In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.

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.

Being a celebrity is a business.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

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

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

Sportsmen do not need Bollywood or film industry; they do not need publicity: it could be the other way round.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.