Prince Royce Quotes

I've got to dress more conservatively because now people write about what I wear.

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

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

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

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

I get to know whatever is written about me through social media. But I don't take it seriously, because if someone has taken out time to cook up stories about me, I must have done something right.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

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

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.