Michelle McCool Quotes

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

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

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

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

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?