Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

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

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

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

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!

If I screw up then everyone's paying attention and I'll hear about it.

The more you talk about your personal life, the more people are going to judge you so it's best to keep a low-profile.

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.

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

There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

Obviously, I pay for the fact I was an actress once. But it was a job like any other, because I never did anything scandalous.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

Doctors have a really big fear of looking unprofessional. I've always said that if you're a professional person, you'll never come off looking unprofessional, whether it's social media or something else.