Gossip
Actors' quotes about gossip
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This section includes actors and directors' quotes about gossip and paparazzi. The risk of being a celebrity includes being targeted by those who, through the media, spread truthful or false news about your private life. Movie stars are always trying to balance privacy with the fear of being forgotten, and in this section you will discover their relationship with gossip and fake news.
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“Someone once said interviews are like thumbprints on your windpipe. That's kinda how I feel.”
“I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.”
“All young actors dream of success, but it's a bitter kind of thing for man, you lose the most valuable thing in the world, privacy.”
“I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.”
“Performers should be judged only by their work on-stage - too much is made of their personal lives.”
“Often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.”
“The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.”
“Write anything you want about me. Make up something. Hell, I don't care.”
“Any of my indiscretions were with people, not actresses.”
“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter?”
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“If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.”
“I didn't think I had too many friends left in Hollywood. Gossip about Gary and me was being whispered all over town. No official Cooper separation had been declared and no one wanted to be on the wrong side when the lines were finally drawn. I was no longer the young darling of Hollywood.”
“In Hollywood it's okay to be subtle, as long as you make it obvious.”
I have noticed something that escaped me on my first film out here: how the exact same conversational weight is given to talk about one's nutritionist, masseur, publicist, manager, agent, favorite eaterie and Gorby's [Gorbachev's] current invasion of Lithuania — "D'you think there's a movie in there?" History is mere fodder for the next picture ... (continue)(continue reading)
“Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.”
“People follow me around, especially photographers. They want to see who I'm with... like if it's another girl. Or they'll hang around a few hours, to try and see if I'm leaving with the person I arrived with!”
“The British are the worst... appalling. I've been really shocked by the behavior of the British press. Richard Gere went out to dinner with Uma Thurman. They're old friends. Uma left the restaurant and she gets shoved up against a railing by journalists trying to get her photograph. She gets a cut above her eye that needed stitches. And his...” (continue)(continue reading)
“There are these irresponsible people who sell addresses. You can buy a magazine today — I'd like to go and shoot these people myself! — with celebrities' home addresses in it. It's a scary world.”
“It's appalling, but celebrities have no secret. My life in and 3,000 miles from Hollywood would have been considerably easier if I'd been homosexual inasmuch as my private relationships would then have remained private.”
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