Top 135 Public Eye Quotes

I can’t imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like ‘You said this back then!’

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

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

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university – four years of not being in the public eye – and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

It’s a strange kind of responsibility being in the public eye and having people who follow you and admire you.

I grew up in the public eye from the age of 15 and it wasn’t a choice I made, it just kind of got imposed on me because of who my dad is.

I don’t mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

You see what it is for your mental health to be in the public eye.

I think that because I struggled and did get very bullied, that definitely made me learn how to be funny and let things roll off and be able to laugh, and I think that has definitely helped me when it comes to being in the public eye with ‘Gay of Thrones’ and ‘Queer Eye.’

No matter who you date, people are going to make fun of them, jealous people are going to say stuff, people get creepy – all the things that come with the public eye.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

When you’re playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don’t when you’re playing people who weren’t ever in the public eye.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

Being in the public eye, you’re always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don’t really care anymore.

My work is often a therapy for myself – a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

The danger is that the artists who’ll put grime into the commercial and public eye will put grime at the back of their closets and jump on another genre of music.

I have a positive outlook, but when you’re out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you.

I can’t tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you’re in the public eye, you have a decision to make – whether you are going to be an influence or not.

Like any woman in the public eye, I get a considerable number of sexist/misogynistic tweets from people.

I didn’t understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos – it’s sort of humiliating and painful.

I don’t feel like I’m really in the public eye because I feel like I’m one of the public.

But for women – and, yes, this is strictly applicable to females – grey hair is still a rarity, especially if you’re in the public eye.

When you keep your most intimate relationship in the public eye and that too in a most vulnerable state, then your protective instinct comes out.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it’s not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven’t found a comfortable way to deal with it.

It’s really important for women in the public eye to be open – these pop stars who don’t look, behave, speak like real women – that’s not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic – too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

Since my family is in the public eye, we’ve got to be strong, we’ve got to support each other, and we’ve got to stand united.

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.

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

I’d love to work with Kanye West. He’s gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

I’ve been very aware with the fact that being in the public eye, being on TV, being cast on ‘Total Divas,’ I’m setting myself out there for criticism, but I have to know in my heart, what I know is right.

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90’s. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

I think it’s totally up to the individual if they’d like a private life or if they’d like to be in the public eye – it’s a choice you can make.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don’t care no more.

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.

Because I’m in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn’t in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they’ll still put it in the news.

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.

I’m not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I’m proud of them! It’s very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it’s in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it’s the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren’t that many of us.

Unfortunately here in the UK we have got into the habit of being nasty about people in the public eye. It’s all so vicious. In the States they are happy to just say people are great or that they look nice.

I think it’s always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It’s the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

Basketball is great and so much fun, and it has taken me to so many places. I’ve been in the public eye a lot, and it has given me so many great experiences but hasn’t changed the person I am.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

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.

If you’re in the public eye, you’re constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It’s just a shame those are the reactions people have.

There was definitely a time where I really didn’t want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I’ve battled with that a little bit.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

I’ve had some good moments at karaoke. Back in the day, oh my gosh… before, I was more in the public eye. Nowadays, I don’t do it as much because if you do, it’s going to be on the Internet.

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you’re feeling and you aren’t totally allowed to be yourself, because you’re in the public eye.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you’re giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you’ve got to accept that. The trade-off between being on ‘Love Island’ and not being on ‘Love Island’ is very skewed into the positive.

I have to make sure that I don’t silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of ‘What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?’ For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I’m in the public eye.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

Being in the public eye, especially, can be hard sometimes. It’s kind of like anything you do is… if you make any mistake… It can definitely be overwhelming sometimes.

I’ve never been a person that has had fear of, like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.’ I don’t know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

Whether your job puts you in the public eye or not, being able to leave your work at work and come home to a different pace of life seems to me not only logical, but sustainable.

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

In public, when my kids have not been behaving great – because that’s life, my kids are not perfect, okay – I’ve noticed other people watching me. And I felt judged, because I’m obviously in the public eye. So that’s been hard.

When you are in a family where there are two or three people in the limelight – like politics and acting – two worlds colliding like that, there will be times when obviously in the press or public eye, those opinions can collide and not match.

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.

There’s a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

I’m very conscious that I’ve spent my whole adult life in the public eye.

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.

Once you’re put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

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

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.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I’m an actor, so I’m in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

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

I’m in the public eye.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, ‘We don’t share anything about ourselves.’ And that’s fine.

I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring – he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring… he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.

I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.

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.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I’m in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think ‘Moneyball’ represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet – it’s scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye.

I’ve been in the public eye so long, I can’t remember how it was when it was different – from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

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.

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

I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you’re in the public eye, the more you’ve got to… dress to impress.

When you are in the public eye, in the name of public service, you have to understand that the more people know about you, and the more people say they want to support you, the more you have to work even harder to uphold that trust.

It’s unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

When you’re in the public eye, it allows people to see you inhumanely. There’s this idea that you have to take the abuse. And when younger journalists, especially young female journalists, ask me how I handle social media, I hate myself when I have to tell them to condition themselves and develop a thick skin.

You’re in the public eye and you just hope that people don’t come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Life was simple and the credit goes to my parents. They decided to bring us up in a certain way and kept us away from public eye. I am doing the same with my children.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

I love that Hillary actually cares enough about the issues to study them and listen to people who are affected by them. She’s gotta be one of the most knowledgeable and qualified people to ever run for president. She’s been a woman in the public eye for decades now.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

When you’re in the public eye, me and my husband have realized that things should be kept in.

Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents – how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.

My family is in business since long. No one has been in the entertainment industry and in the public eye. So, it was a great deal for me to get into.

When you’re in the public eye, we all feel like we’re constantly observed, so we don’t let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness – when does that come out? Maybe when you’re in traffic, because you’re in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

Look, at the same time that I don’t want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I’d be a baby and a fool to be like, ‘Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?’ when I’m on a billboard for a movie. I think that’s a very absurd concept.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

I was exposed to the public because my dad is an actor. My pictures went online at a young age. A lot of negativity came from there. Not just with me, but it happened with a lot of my friends who are in the public eye.

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

I’m more of a homebody type. I don’t want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn’t become an actress to be famous.

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.

I think one of the greatest advantages we had on the show growing up was being exposed to Mr. Cosby – being exposed to his work ethic, being exposed to how he handles the job of celebrity and living in the public eye… I think that all had a real significant impact.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

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

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.

It’s not an easy matter to grow up in the public eye.

I think being in the public eye has made me more determined than other people to show that I do belong at the top, and I believe I am one of the hardest-working people at the rink. I feel like I have always been that way, but sometimes I just get in my own way.

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

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.

When you’re a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because – especially when you’re in the public eye – you’re constantly being judged.

As an artist, you’re used to being in the public eye.

I love fame. I love being written about. I don’t really mind if people think I’m a bad writer, if they don’t understand my weird Instagram performance art or they find my long captions annoying. That’s part of the package of being in the public eye, and honestly I find it exhilarating.

I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.

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.

We’re just actors, man, just part of things. We’re just doing our jobs, like everyone else does their jobs. The adulation for us is much more because we are always in the public eye. But I never became an actor because I wanted people to scream out my name.

I’m in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that’s what acting’s all about.

When you’re in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

There is a role that Muslims in the public eye play: to reassure people that we are OK.

Steven Gerrard wanted to speak to me, so I went to see him and we had a sit down over my future. He’s someone who had pretty much been in the public eye his whole life, and now that I was going to be in bigger fights earning better money, he took it upon himself to give me a talking to about what I should do next.

I grew up knowing the pros and cons of the business and knowing what comes with pursuing what you love in terms of being in the public eye. I also grew up among people that were considered celebrities and people that people admired.

I’ve been able to pay the bills. I’ve been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.

Twerking – and it’s a lot more than twerking – comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans. Twerkin’ happen around the world for a long time now, so I’m very excited that it’s coming into the public eye, as long as it’s respected.

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

But that’s the beauty of being in the public eye – people are always going to have opinions and I respect that.

I’ve grown up in the public eye, and every decision I’ve made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

There’s a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there’s media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn’t care less. I really couldn’t care less.

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.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I’m doing in life more.

With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.