Alan Shearer Quotes

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

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.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

The media has had its fun with me.

There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

I've fully accepted the fact that if I'm going to do a career like this, I have to be willing to take criticism, because it's a part of the job, you know? Any Instagram thing I post, someone's going to say something. I know that. Anything on Twitter, someone's going to judge whatever I do, whatever I say, whatever I look like. I understand that.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

My life has been on TV for so long now, I'm used to it.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.