Paparazzi Quotes

I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: "I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me."

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.