Jason Calacanis Quotes

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.