George Michael Quotes

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

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

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

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.

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.

If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

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

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

I'm not interested myself in personality news.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

I don't read everything written about me.