Momina Mustehsan Quotes

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

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.'

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

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.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

I remember, one time my friend and I were trying to get back on the tender of a boat we were staying on, but there were so many paparazzi we couldn't find it. So now there are all these pictures of me going, 'Where are you?' and just a billion paparazzi not letting me on.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

I don't get bothered by fans.

Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

Now I kind of have to watch where I go. I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.

Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.

The tabloids had a field day with 'Tipping The Velvet,' which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

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.'