Anthony Holden Quotes

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

The public is a part of my real life.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

I live my life on TV - it's like a home video.

Celebrity damages private life.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

One cannot think of him [Theodore Roosevelt] except as part of the public scheme, performing on the public stage.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.

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.