Diana Quotes

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

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

When you do things wrong, even a couple of mistakes, the press has the right to criticise. Much more so when you're a goalkeeper - who remain in the spotlight forever.

Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what's next. It's made me grow a much thicker skin.

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

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

I watch a lot of interviews with Selena [Gomez] because she's been in the public eye for so long and she's dealt with a lot of critique that I believe is unwarranted, but maybe that's just me being a fangirl.

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

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

I feel as though I'm constantly defending myself. I'm up against challengers from the ballroom world, from the dance world, people on the couch who hate what I'm saying about their favourite celebrity. Then you're up against the press, who will always want to put you in a box.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.

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

I'm aware of the fact that people that are watching to see what I do next - It's challenging to make the best decisions, and I don't always get it right.