Quotes about Public Eye

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. Votes: 1

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you. Votes: 1

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. Votes: 1

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you. Votes: 1

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny. Votes: 1

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do. Votes: 1

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. Votes: 1

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous. Votes: 1

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I lost interest in being in the public eye. Votes: 0

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye. Votes: 0

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often. Votes: 0

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. Votes: 0

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye. Votes: 0

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back. Votes: 0

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye. Votes: 0

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye. Votes: 0

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. Votes: 0

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you. Votes: 0

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. Votes: 0

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Votes: 0

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye. Votes: 0

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's. Votes: 0

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. Votes: 0

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom. Votes: 0

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking. Votes: 0

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics. Votes: 0

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. Votes: 0

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible. Votes: 0

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion. Votes: 0

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers. Votes: 0

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. Votes: 0

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye. Votes: 0

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring. Votes: 0

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress. Votes: 0

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone. Votes: 0

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was? Votes: 0

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot. Votes: 0

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye. Votes: 0

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can. Votes: 0

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye. Votes: 0

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you. Votes: 0

Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street. Votes: 0

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported. Votes: 0

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. Votes: 0

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity. Votes: 0

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye. Votes: 0

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people. Votes: 0

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye. Votes: 0

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked. Votes: 0

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think. Votes: 0

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too. Votes: 0

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information. Votes: 0

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God? Votes: 0

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that." Votes: 0

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye. Votes: 0

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising. Votes: 0

I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona. Votes: 0

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values. Votes: 0