Stella McCartney Quotes

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

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

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

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

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

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

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.