Valerie Plame Quotes

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

I know people will criticise when you play bad; that is part of this job, and I am fine with that. That is not a problem. The problem is the insults. That is what hurts the most.

I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

I do some really intense roles and it's not good to bring them home.

The definition of success, for me, was to have my family involved in everything that I did. But that got stripped away from me due to a very ugly divorce between my parents, who are also simultaneously my managers.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

I do take my characters back home. In fact, I am the reel person in real life during the entire shoot. This affects me and my family because I tend to be eccentric or irritable during these times.

Growing up in the public eye isn't easy.

Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.

Every field has its pressures and stress factors.

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

Trash my acting and my films. But don't gossip about my personal life.

I don't know, I think when filming a reality show, you definitely sign up for showing the world vulnerable parts of your life and all that can be challenging.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

The second you become an actress, people take the licence to make many assumptions about you. You're in trouble if you interact with a director/actor. You're in even more trouble if you don't. When I started out, a single YouTube comment would make me sad for days, and I'd wonder how people could say such nasty things about me.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?

As Churchill's grandson, I am in daily receipt of vile correspondence from people telling me that I am a traitor to his memory.

There are some women who have made some really hurting remarks about my relationship with my husband Himanshu Malhotra. They even dared to ask me if I have divorced him just because I don't put my pictures with him too often. Now that is really ridiculous!

I don't believe what I do outside my profession is anybody's' business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.

When I dont have work to talk about, I dont need to be in the headlines.