Venus Williams Quotes

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

Kanye is so much fun. He's a wonderful person. What I love about Kim and Kanye is that I think they save their happy moments and their smiles for themselves rather than sharing everything with the public. And listen, when a camera is shoved in your face trying to take a selfie, you do not want to smile.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

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

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

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

I've been very aware with the fact that being in the public eye, being on TV, being cast on 'Total Divas,' I'm setting myself out there for criticism, but I have to know in my heart, what I know is right.

Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

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.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.