Zara Phillips Quotes

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

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

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.