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.
