Melissa Benoist Quotes

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

There is a Twitter account apparently dedicated to my brows. I do not Tweet on it, but... they talk about who they've seen today.

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

I have never, ever read anything written about me.

Everything I post on social media, they make a headline out of it!

Every comment, every tweet, every snap, every second of my life is viewed and it affects people. It does become daunting, and it can be hard to remain true to my message and to be real and authentic and to not be biased by whatever is thrown at me because of the success that I've had.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

I'm gonna be honest with you - since I started 'First Take,' I don't Google myself.

I don't think about Miley Cyrus.

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.

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

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 don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

Reading about myself on public platforms makes me uncomfortable. I don't like it. I read other people's interviews or articles, but when it comes to myself, if I see something about myself then I immediately turn over the page.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

I think some people have gotten used to the paparazzi culture and they know they cannot avoid it. If you ask me, some people like it, but I have a different opinion.