Barry Manilow Quotes

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

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

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

It's so disappointing that I've become a tabloid story.

The media has had its fun with me.

If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

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

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.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

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

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

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.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

Vice President Quayle has been the object of too much attention that does not flatter him.