Boris Yeltsin Quotes

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

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

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

It's hard to be famous and alive.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

It's hard being in the public eye.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

I have fame, and I'm living this life, but sometimes I forget, and I go out to dinner or walk to the movies like nothing's wrong.

I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.

I don't like the pressure of TV.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.