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.
