Judy Smith Quotes

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

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

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

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

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

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

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.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

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.

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

It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.

That's part and parcel of touring England. You have to be very street smart and on your game. If you're not, the media and the ECB will have a field day with you.

I'm not interested myself in personality news.

We were under scrutiny when Stephen became rich and famous. The media were in the house, and camera leads were absolutely everywhere - it was just nightmarish.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

I'm the daughter of the media.