Micah Richards Quotes

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

The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

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.

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

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

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 think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

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.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

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.

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.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

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.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.

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

People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.

It's hard being in the public eye.

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.

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

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

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