Nick Diaz Quotes

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

At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

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.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

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