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I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. -- J. K. Rowling
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you. -- Mia Wasikowska
Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. -- Justin Trudeau
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny. -- Tim Howard
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do. -- Sheryl Crow
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching. -- Tiki Barber
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. -- Steven Spielberg
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. -- Bernard Tschumi
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. -- Randy Jackson
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. -- Ryan Lochte
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. -- Sean Paul
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. -- Sasha Grey
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Eric Liu
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. -- Alanis Morissette
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. -- Aaliyah
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. -- Deborra-Lee Furness
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. -- Nell Newman
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. -- Jensen Ackles
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. -- Talib Kweli
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. -- Alanis Morissette
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. -- Chaz Bono
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. -- Alanis Morissette
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.' -- Shannen Doherty
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. -- Johnny Weir
I lost interest in being in the public eye. -- Phoebe Snow
I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye. -- Molly Ringwald
I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often. -- Burgess Meredith
If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. -- Darynda Jones
For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye. -- Lance Bass
Once I got in the public eye there was no going back. -- Shayne Ward
I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye. -- Shannen Doherty
It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye. -- Natasha Lyonne
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. -- Joni Mitchell
If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you. -- Blake Shelton
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. -- Horace
There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye. -- Ivanka Trump
If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's. -- Paul McGann
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. -- Chelsea Clinton
This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking. -- Kenny Rogers
There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics. -- Chelsea Manning
I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. -- Nell Newman
When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible. -- Donna Summer
I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion. -- Johnny Weir
I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers. -- Elisha Cuthbert
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye. -- Goldie Hawn
When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring. -- Donna Summer
I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress. -- Mila Kunis
When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone. -- Harry Beitzel
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was? -- Ryan White
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot. -- Sadie Frost
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye. -- Taylor Swift
I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can. -- Nadya Suleman
In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye. -- Galcher Lustwerk
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you. -- Tabitha King
Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street. -- Nicole Appleton
I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported. -- Martine McCutcheon
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. -- Roone Arledge
Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. -- Brigitte Nielsen
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. -- Zara Phillips
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity. -- Tracey Gold
I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye. -- Jennifer Lopez
I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people. -- Mike Ness
I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information. -- Jesse Eisenberg
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. -- Katherine Heigl
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. -- Tim Lincecum
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Brian May
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! -- Louise Nurding
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. -- Rakim
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. -- Nicholson Baker
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. -- Laverne Cox
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. -- Leon Redbone
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. -- Margot Kidder
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. -- Jim Jeffords
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. -- Margot Kidder
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. -- Taylor Swift
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. -- Paulo Coelho
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. -- Jessica Szohr
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. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
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. -- Sarah Hyland
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. -- Paris Hilton
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. -- Gretchen Carlson
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. -- Nelson DeMille
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. -- Amber Tamblyn
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. -- Hilary Duff
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. -- Dolly Parton
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. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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. -- Drake
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. -- Chris Lowe
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. -- Mena Suvari
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. -- Suzanne Somers
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Tim Howard
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. -- Jade Jagger
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. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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. -- Cheryl Tiegs
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. -- Jason Schwartzman
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. -- John Barrowman
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. -- Wayne Rogers
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 -- Jason Schwartzman
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. -- Rob Lowe
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. -- Scarlett Johansson
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. -- Geri Halliwell
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. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
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. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
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. -- Alastair Campbell
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. -- Ashley Greene
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. -- Victoria Beckham
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. -- Brandy Norwood
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. -- Melissa Joan Hart
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. -- Barbara Bush
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. -- Chris Bosh
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? -- Mark E. Petersen
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." -- Guy Pearce
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. -- Jonah Hill

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