89+ Best Paparazzi Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Inspirational paparazzi quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

Famous Paparazzi Quotes

The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it’s there. Kevin Federline

I don’t like to share my personal life it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it. George Clooney

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were. R.L. Stine

The paparazzi are usually waiting at the end of the block. It’s pretty irritating. But you know, what are you going to do? I complain about it, still nothing changes. I try to wear the same outfit all the time. I try to be really boring and have a really bland expression on my face, but it doesn’t seem. I think they’re waiting for me to fall off my bike or something. I don’t feel like a prisoner. But do I get annoyed that I can’t go for a bike ride or a walk without people following me? Yeah, I do. Madonna

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh Grant. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer Hugh, could you look less um Hugh Pained? Emma Thompson

I had a horrifying frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby. Because of a recent incident when I was trapped in my car without my baby by a throng of paparazzi, I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger. 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. Britney Spears

If you look into somebody’s soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in. Agatha Christie

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war, after the death in a car crash of Diana, Princess of Wales. Catherine Deneuve

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name. Anthony Liccione

To take the commercial photographer’s studio on location, the photographer takes his mind set to make the photograph he wants. Once on location you need to be self sufficient. Nancy Hopkins Reily

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera and bills to pay. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The paparazzi is named for the 1960 movie La Dolce Vita irksome photographer character named Paparazzo. Nancy Hopkins Reily

Memory is just an alternate version of reality. Candace Bushnell

Paparazzi does exist, and there are some quite spectacular shots of me buying a piece of furniture or cigarettes. It’s super annoying every time. Mads Mikkelsen

On the day Princess Diana died, a group of students had gathered before a lecture, talking about what they had heard on the radio that morning, repeating paparazzi over and over, all sounding knowing and cocksure, until, in a lull, Okoli Okafor quietly asked, But who exactly are the paparazzi? Are they motorcyclists? and instantly earned himself the nickname Okoli Paparazzi. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You love the paparazzi, love the fame. Even you know it causes me pain. Lady Gaga

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena. A.D. Aliwat

I like the famous I am now: I walk into other people’s paparazzi photos, but I can also get a restaurant reservation. Meg Ryan

All truly famous people wish fame had a switch. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A selfie is paparazzi for people who aren’t vibrant enough to attract paparazzi. Dennis Miller

Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi. Vann Chow

Autographs and everything? I mean, just the one commercial, and you have paparazzi? Kate

Because marriage is supposed to make you happy, not make you feel like a rat trapped in a very glamorous cage with twenty thousand dollar silk draperies. Candace Bushnell

Well, the paparazzi, they snapped a pic and it’s going to be out in the morning. Shay

People snapping up gossip mags of celebrities snapping their heels at the snapping paparazzi, and snapping them up even more the mags when they start snapping at them for snapping them. Martin Boronte

Make fun of me all you want, but school pictures are everything to me. They’re great practice for getting photographed by the paparazzi. Invasive as the press may be, stars are dependent on them for their fame, and I feel I must be prepared. Rachel Berry

In a world of fame, followers, likes and paparazzi, we need to aspire to be something other than popular. Koki Oyuke

Break the story in heavy type  the news is running late tonight.  Be decked with Nikon necklaces  hear the Paparazzi cries.  Under their noses walk  the famous in disguise.  Conspicuously huddled there but no one stops to look. They’ve got their crayons out  to color in the book. Snap it up, flash away steal a camel for a day.  Break the story in heavy type  Paparazzi won’t be home tonight.  Paparazzi write it down. Paparazzi turn it around. Paparazzi take it, fake it, break it. Cos it’s a story. Adele Margaret Anderson

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. Portia de Rossi

Paparazzi after my shows asking me questions  God fed up with my soul so ain’t no blessing  Happiness can’t be bought or sold, I learned my lesson Now I see what fame will really get you  Bottle by the night stand, that ease the stress Dealing with depression, pills on the dresser Fiending for affection so I’m buying out the section Now I see what fame really gets you. Justin Scott

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

Red carpet massacre  Don’t want to hassle you  Red carpet massacre  Death stalk paparazzi yeah  Red carpet massacre It’s going to mess with you We’re in business You’re on the hit list. John Nigel Taylor

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi I won’t do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me. Matt Damon

What I do with my life  Ain’t nobody’s biz  What I do with my time  I wish you’d let me live  See everywhere I go Your cameras follow me  Don’t you know frames cover my eyes?  So my tears you never see  Tell me how much more  Do you think that I can take Have the chauffeur drive me home  Paparazzi’s at my gate  Try to ruin me, I ain’t gonna let you do  Got a call from the Marshall firm  Somebody else want to sue. Stephen Edward Huff

I’m not bothered by the paparazzi and I don’t feel hemmed in, I’ve never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn’t quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I’ve never felt that. Albert Finney

Red carpet photographers maintain a respectful distance, whereas paparazzi are known to get in the celebrity’s face without any respect for the celebrity’s personal space. Jennifer Graylock

In France we have a law which doesn’t allow the press to publish a photo that you didn’t approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. Audrey Tautou

We have a love hate relationship. I need them, and they need me. Halle Berry

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it. Paul Bettany

We recognized long ago that the paparazzi were just trying to do their job. Same with the press. Kardashians

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don’t have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I’m never in the tabloids. I prefer that. Rob Schneider

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying. Mila Kunis

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. Lady Gaga

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. Tom Cruise

I try to keep my private life private. Jake Epstein

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. Shirley MacLaine

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

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. Portia de Rossi

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. Shirley MacLaine

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that’s how they’re going to sell it. Goldie Hawn

You can’t control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you’re going to get photographed. Whereas if you’re at home, walking down the street you probably won’t. It’s something I’ve learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private. Ashley Greene

If you have paparazzi, you know you’ve gotten somewhere. Vanessa Hudgens

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. Kathy Griffin

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

I’ve actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows. Megan Fox

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it’s really unpleasant. Barbara Broccoli

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It’s just when they step over the line that, you know, enough’s enough. Elton John

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

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it’s really unpleasant. Barbara Broccoli

I can’t go to war with paparazzi. Daniel Craig

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I’m like, Really? Do I have to?! I like to work and I know that’s part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride. Jensen Ackles

I’m intensely private, and I’ve openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. Demi Moore

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control. Bradley Cooper

No, I wouldn’t want the paparazzi ever following me in my life. Elizabeth Olsen

There’s a continuity between what I care about in any form I care about it in my music, in article writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There’s such a continuity between everything that I don’t really care what form it shows up in. Alanis Morissette

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

I’ve spent years when I’ve not been in the limelight at all and I’m perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. Joan Collins

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. Eva Longoria

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you. Dianna Agron

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

I used to be a cool chick but I’m not anymore. Britney Spears

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

I’m afraid of buying a house or anything, cause if there’s one paparazzi outside for one day, then they’ll never leave. Robert Pattinson

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. Matt LeBlanc

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don’t bother to ask. Robert Powell

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

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. Charlton Heston

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

I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it’s the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It’s the lack of critical thinking. It’s the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me. Sarah Jessica Parker

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. Michelle Pfeiffer

I’ve been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don’t have much interest in you. I’m still married, still working, still happy. Matt Damon

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. Portia de Rossi

The celebrity making machine photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that can be ruthless. Catherine Keener

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don’t have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I’m never in the tabloids. I prefer that. Rob Schneider

No, I wouldn’t want the paparazzi ever following me in my life. Elizabeth Olsen

I don’t court paparazzi. I definitely don’t like that part of it. Sarah McLachlan

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