Public Eye Quotes

#1. I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

Melissa Joan Hart

#2. Many of my friends and colleagues are in the public eye, so they have to pay close attention to what they wear. But every woman needs to stay on her toes in this era of cell-phone cameras and Facebook.

Nina Garcia

#3. Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye.

Philip Treacy

#4. People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

Hillary Clinton

#5. It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Geri Halliwell

#6. I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.

Laverne Cox

#7. Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

Hilary Duff

#8. There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

Steven Spielberg

#9. I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Jim Jeffords

#10. It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

Zara Phillips

#11. I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.

Emily Procter

#12. I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

Jack Osbourne

#13. [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Antonia Fraser

#14. I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.

Victoria Beckham

#15. I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#16. I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Nicole Appleton

#17. I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

Elisha Cuthbert

#18. I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

J.K. Rowling

#19. The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.

Raven-Symone

#20. Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

Alyssa Milano

#21. Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

Shannen Doherty

#22. I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

Jennifer Lopez

#23. I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

Britney Spears

#24. I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Nadya Suleman

#25. It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

Dylan Penn

#26. Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

Rain Phoenix

#27. It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Gwen Stefani

#28. I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

Ciara

#29. Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

Suzanne Somers

#30. I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Roone Arledge

#31. If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Jeff Tweedy

#32. I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

Burgess Meredith

#33. You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

Tiki Barber

#34. People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Hillary Clinton

#35. You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.

David Oakes

#36. If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.

Zooey Deschanel

#37. I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#38. Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

Debra Messing

#39. My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

#40. People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

Taylor Swift

#41. As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about.

Scarlett Johansson

#42. Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

Mandy Moore

#43. A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#44. I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

Helen Hunt

#45. I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

Neil Young

#46. Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

Ashley Greene

#47. Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

Khloe Kardashian

#48. For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

Chelsea Clinton

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

Gwyneth Paltrow

#50. Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

Drake

#51. I've learned a lot about being in the public eye. I'm certainly handling things more maturely now, I'm not getting as scared as easily.

Tim Lincecum

#52. If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

Louise Nurding

#53. Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

Sean Paul

#54. The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Bernard Tschumi

#55. Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

Katherine Heigl

#56. I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

Kesha

#57. You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.

John Barrowman

#58. To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Alanis Morissette

#59. So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

Goldie Hawn

#60. I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

Talib Kweli

#61. I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

Shannen Doherty

#62. I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

Ryan Lochte

#63. My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#64. For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

Lance Bass

#65. Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.

Johnny Weir

#66. As an actor, you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

Ben Whishaw

#67. I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

Nell Newman

#68. Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

#69. If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

Paul McGann

#70. I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#71. I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Amy Grant

#72. I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Jessica Szohr

#73. When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#74. I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

Brandy Norwood

#75. Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Horace

#76. I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

Macaulay Culkin

#77. When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Randy Jackson

#78. Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.

Shayne Ward

#79. I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

Molly Ringwald

#80. It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Jason Schwartzman

#81. If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

Blake Shelton

#82. I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

James Nesbitt

#83. My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

Julian Cope

#84. If you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter who they are. I've had lots of girlfriends who weren't in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you've sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

Max Beesley

#85. Barack and I have been in the public eye for many years now, and we've developed a thick skin along the way. When you're out campaigning, there will always be criticism. I just take it in stride, and at the end of the day, I know that it comes with the territory.

Michelle Obama

#86. I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Phoebe Snow

#87. I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

Tim Howard

#88. I have to give credit to my trainer. He definitely kept me motivated in staying in shape ... I've always been naturally curvy, but of course I had to get used to being in the public eye.

Kate Upton

#89. I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Nelson DeMille

#90. I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

Jesse Eisenberg

#91. When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Harry Beitzel

#92. It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

Taylor Swift

#93. Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it's a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.

Hayden Panettiere

#94. Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

Margot Kidder

#95. Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.

Justin Trudeau

#96. Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh
To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

Thomas Hood

#97. Social media has allowed people to ramp up their personal attacks on people in the public eye - because there is a sense they can do it anonymously.

Gretchen Carlson

#98. A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.

Chris Bosh

#99. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alanis Morissette

#100. As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Sasha Grey