Alison Moyet Quotes

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

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

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.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

I feel like I have just become public property.

Vice President Quayle has been the object of too much attention that does not flatter him.