Media Intrusion Quotes

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

Celebrity damages private life.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

The Press is reducing everything that is noblest and impressive in modern life into terms of Press photographs and Press interviews. In fact they try to dominate everything. How can you concentrate on the solemnity of a scene when you have men with cameras in every direction, whose sole object is to get as near as they can to the central figures? How can you be impressed as much as you would like to be by what is said, when you know that all round you are people taking notes, and that the people who are speaking know that they are taking notes. One or two reporters, for the sake of preserving a record, would not be so bad. But they have to be dealt with in armies nowadays. The Press is destroying all romance, all solemnity, all majesty. They are as unscrupulous as they are vulgar.

I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.