There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.
I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
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.
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
