Claire Bloom Quotes

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

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

The media has had its fun with me.

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

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.

Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.

I don't want to be in the news for anything negative.

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices; these prejudices are the scariest things. People judge a personal life or your image, and it can affect the characters I play. Therefore, I try not to showcase my personal life too much.

If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.

I never talk about filming until I'm actually on the set and I've got the job, because otherwise - "Oh yeah, I'm going to be so busy," and then you're going to see me in McDonald's in two months.

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.