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Paparazzi always made me really uncomfortable.
Sep 18, 2025
I think the paparazzi are absolutely ridiculous. When we were filming, there was a lot of them. It's different being in L.A., where there are so many celebrities. But, when it was in Vancouver, it was all about the film, so there was paparazzi following us. It's just part of the business.
I don't have paparazzi following me. Because I'm a human character, it's different. The vampires get a lot of attention, and then the werewolves, and then the humans. It hasn't really changed that much for 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.
My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.
I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.
I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.
The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
I can't go to war with paparazzi.
I believe I'm not in the press, just in terms of being photographed and paparazzi all the time, or looking for that sensationalistic type of side or anything like that, so I keep things very quiet.
Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.
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.
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 got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.
The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.
I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.
Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.
I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.
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.
If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
It`s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just were not documented the way they are now.
When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.
I know some of these guys who are in that stalkerazzi world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. This is another breed. And they have their heroes who got the big scandalous shot, and which just promotes more of that.
I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a 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 there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation.
Without even asking, the paparazzi is following me around and I'm like, "I'm just a regular girl from Philly. I don't know why you guys are following me. This is really weird."And then the entire world is ridiculing me for things I've never even done.
We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.
I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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.
When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.
I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.
Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.
The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?
What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.
In the make-up trailer there are always lots of trashy magazines and it's always quite pleasant to go through them in the morning. That's when I realized, "Oh my, it's quite nasty". There was a lot of pressure on Daniel Craig. He was quite nervous and paranoid, especially in the Bahamas on the beach, lots of paparazzi. Even on me in France - nasty things! Like I was going to get fired, I was so bad.
I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.
Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.