Vida Blue Quotes

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

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

There are new rumors about me every day.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

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

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'

Even if I sneeze, it would make headlines.

Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth things will happen.