Mia Wasikowska Quotes

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

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.

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

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

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

I grew up knowing the pros and cons of the business and knowing what comes with pursuing what you love in terms of being in the public eye. I also grew up among people that were considered celebrities and people that people admired.

Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

I've been very aware with the fact that being in the public eye, being on TV, being cast on 'Total Divas,' I'm setting myself out there for criticism, but I have to know in my heart, what I know is right.

I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you're giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you've got to accept that. The trade-off between being on 'Love Island' and not being on 'Love Island' is very skewed into the positive.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.