Paul Prudhomme Quotes

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

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

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

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

I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

Can public men have private lives?

There’s a lot of pressure to demonstrate to the public that you’re up to the task, even though you are literally pulling the levers of something while you’re still trying to figure out how it works.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

These days, as I am older and wiser, I realize that there is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you.

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.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.