Roberto Cavalli Quotes

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

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.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

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

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

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

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

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

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

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 have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.