Paparazzi Quotations

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

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

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.

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

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

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

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.

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

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side but, unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars also following us.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger.

I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

If that stuff really bothers you so much, you should go do regional theatre. Go do Chekhov in Iowa. No paparazzi will be following you.

It gets to the point where it's so frustrating that you just want to get away, ... I almost flipped my Range Rover trying to get away from the paparazzi last week, and it made me so heated.

It is my sense that the activities of the paparazzi have grown more and more aggressive over the last couple years.

I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.

You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

Unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars following us,

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane.

There'll be red carpet, paparazzi and screens with pictures on it. We'll also have a variety of parties in the village.

This just goes to show how low the paparazzi will go trying to get a photo. If they break the law, they will be arrested. This one got away, but the next one won't.

These paparazzi are probably lying because they lie about everything. These accusations are the height of absurdity. These are people who jump out of trees and hide in bathroom stalls.

She looked at us and ran. She screamed, 'You always make me look so bad.' We yelled, 'We are not paparazzi !' But she kept going. I felt like telling her to stop and pose and get a good shot.

I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm's way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us, and took photos of us which were sold to the media. I love my child and would do anything to protect him.

In certain, specific incidents, the paparazzi have crossed the line into criminal behavior.

I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.

I'm in the movies that they dump. Last year we came out on the worst date, with Paparazzi . This year, we're like a week away from the worst date. We'll see. What can you do?

I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day. But through witnesses and videotapes, we weren't able to corroborate the incident Ms. Witherspoon described.

I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day, ... But through witnesses and videotapes, we weren't able to corroborate the incident Ms. Witherspoon described.

I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day,

I haven't really had any experiences, as far as having paparazzi sit outside of my house or following me around on the street. But, I actually don't really go to places where they do that, unless they knew where I lived or what kind of car I drive.

I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby.

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

I didn't sit with paparazzi and interview them. I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him.

I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

I try to keep my private life private.

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

If you have paparazzi, you know you've gotten somewhere.

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

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .

I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!