Nancy Gibbs Quotes

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

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

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.

The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

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

Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.