Samuel Eto'o Quotes

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

The press creates a caricature.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

People think your life's different because you've got money, you've got fame, so they don't treat you the same.

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.