Rose Bird Quotes

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

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 know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

The curiosity of the public took the greatest toll on me of anything in politics

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.