Invasive Journalism Quotes

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

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

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 think people in the public eye have a problem - they can have security issues.

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

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

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.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

If you have never experienced life under a microscope, you need to understand that those who live a public life are no longer seen as real persons -- human beings. Rather, they are objects to be examined, manipulated, ridiculed and sometimes even hated

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.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.