Tom Ford Quotes

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

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

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

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

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

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I'm in the intriguing position of being a friend of Jeremy Corbyn and knowing him personally. It's quite a strange position to know somebody that's in the news and know the person who they're talking about and taking pictures of.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

I don't read everything written about me.

I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

The media has had its fun with me.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.