Fisher Ames Quotes

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

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

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

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'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

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

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

I'm used to people talking about me.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

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.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

I would never be on a reality show.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

I was assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for the Presidency or the penitentiary.

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.