Kapil Sibal Quotes

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

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

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

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

We as a government are entitled to be criticised.

What's been interesting is that the more famous the person is, the less they seem to care if I talk about them.

When you criticize grown men, it's a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner... I'm sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.