130+ Paparazzi Quotes

Paparazzi are freelance photographers who capture the picture of celebrities.

For most famous people, it might seem fun to pose for the paparazzi but there are some people who don't like that much attention and prefer their life to stay personal.

Now, let's look at some paparazzi quotes made by celebrities all around the world about them.

Paparazzi Quotes On Personal Life

Here are some of Quotes told by celebrities on how the paparazzi has affected their personal life.

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

-George Clooney

''I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.''

-Diane Kruger

''At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here'.''

-Katherine Jenkins

''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.''

-Matthew Lewis

''Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.''

-Kendall Jenner

''The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.''

-Dev Patel

Paparazzi Quotes By Britney Spears

Britney Spears has always been in the limelight when it comes to paparazzi. Let's read what she has to say about them.

''I used to be a cool chick but I feel like the paparazzi has taken that away from me, like, the way I used to live my life. I used to be a cool chick but I’m not any more.''

-Britney Spears

''I Had Let People Into My Life That Were Just Bad People.''

-Britney Spears, Media Screening, MTV. November 20, 2008.

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

-Britney Spears

Famous Paparazzi Quotes

Below you'll find a list of Paparazzi quotes said by famous celebrities

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

-Tori Spelling

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

-Shirley MacLaine

''I don't ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are.''

-Julia Holter

''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.''

-Dolly Parton

''I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with super tinted windows.''

-Megan Fox

''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

''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 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.''

-Michelle Williams

''A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.''

-Peaches Geld

''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 any more.''

-Eva Longoria

''The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.''

-Jeremy Lin

''Everyday, I get up in the morning and I see a picture of my grandson in newspapers. Now everyone recognizes his maid also! That's because of the paparazzi.''

-Randhir Kapoor

''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.''

-Danielle Fishel

''I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.''

-Randall Park

''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.''

-Vince Vaughn

''It was scary. It's a public beach that we're filming on, so there was tons of paparazzi, especially when Pamela would be working. It was absolutely mayhem.''

-Gena Lee Nolin

''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 believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.''

-Mahatma Gandhi

''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

''My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'.''

-Jessica Biel

''I won't fool anybody by saying, 'Oh! I'm a private person.' I love people, flashbulbs and the paparazzi.''

-Sameera Reddy

''I think when people think about California, they think about straight Hollywood, that Hollywood glamour, whole bunch of flashes, so much paparazzi.''

-Anthony Rendon

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

-Matthew McConaughey

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

-Amy Adams

''Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.''

-Josephine Langford

''We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.''

Alexander Skarsgard

''Between the paparazzi and so many false stories in the media, it was causing me extreme nausea and fatigue.''

-Christina Anstead

''We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi try to steal pictures.''

-Princess Stephanie of Monaco

''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.''

-Matthew Morrison

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

-Lily Allen

''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.''

-Kirsten Dunst

''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.''

-Debbie Reynolds

''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

''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

''The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't 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

''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.''

-Matthew McConaughey

''The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'.''

-Selma Blair

''Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.''

-Megan Fox

''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.''

-Gail O'Grady

''But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.''

-Toni Braxton

''My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.''

-Bradley Cooper

''I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.''

-Nicolas Cage

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

-Mila Kunis

''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

'''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.''

-Carine Roitfeld

''Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.''

-Albert Pujols

''The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.''

-Usher

''Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!''

-Victoria Beckham

''When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.''

-Dolores O'Riordan

''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

''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.''

-Patti Smith

''There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.''

-Johnny Depp

''I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.''

-Steve-O

''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

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

-Kevin Federline

''I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.''

-Peggy Lipton

''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

''You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.''

-Leo Sayer

''I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.''

-Debbie Reynolds

''You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.''

-Ashley Olsen

''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

''I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follow him and the way the public is with him. He's a mega-star over in Europe.''

-Cole Hauser

''I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.''

-Emmanuelle Seigner

''I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.''

-Sia

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

-Fiona Apple

''I'm sure it's 10 times easier to handle the criticism and the paparazzi and all of that stuff with somebody by your side that you can share some of that with.''

-AJ Michalka

''You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.''

-Avril Lavigne

''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 need more flattering lenses.''

-Sandra Bullock

''A, if you wanna be an actor, you don't pose for paparazzi.''

-Angelina Pivarnick

''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

''When I'm by myself, I'm really cool and nice to everyone, but then the whole paparazzi thing? If you see me with my kids, I change.''

-Jason Momoa

''I didn't react well toward paparazzi. I just was really protective of myself and constantly hiding myself.''

-Fala Chen

''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

''In Spain you can't do anything. If you drive, everyone recognises you; at a restaurant you have paparazzi outside.''

-Nicolas Anelka

''I don't want to ruin my life with paparazzi and all of that.''

-Ben Howard

''I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.''

-Emily Ratajkowski

''I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.''

-Eddie Vedder

''The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.''

-Tracy Morgan

''I don't think I'll ever get chased by paparazzi - which is a good thing.''

-Hugh Skinner

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

-Emmanuelle Chriqui

''I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.''

-Paloma Faith

''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

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

-Sarah McLachlan

''Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.''

-Robin Wright

''The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!''

-Pixie Lott

''I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.''

-Lauryn Hill

''I am trying to make my peace with the paparazzi.''

-Hilaria Baldwin

''You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.''

-Avril Lavigne

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

-Elizabeth Olsen

''Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.''

Kendall Jenner

''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

''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!.''

-Zac Efron

''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 am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.''

-David Beckham

''I love Cardiff and love living in Cardiff - you don't have paparazzi in Cardiff.''

-Ruth Jones

''I can't walk around like I used to, and there's always paparazzi waiting outside the studio.''

-Rosalia

''I think some people have gotten used to the paparazzi culture and they know they cannot avoid it. If you ask me, some people like it, but I have a different opinion.''

-Arbaaz Khan

''When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.''

-Peter Crouch

''If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky.''

-Julia Holter

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

-Kevin Federline

''It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.''

-Jamie Dornan

''I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.''

-Torrey DeVitto

''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.''

-Katie Featherston

''The paparazzi don't care about me.''

-Nicholas Hoult

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

-Demi Moore

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

-Barbara Broccoli

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

-Ryan Giggs

''I can't go to war with paparazzi.''

-Daniel Craig

''I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?''

-Tony Blackburn

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

-Megan Fox

''The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.''

-Carly Rae Jepsen

''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

''For the most part, I hang out in my backyard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.''

-Pete Wentz

''I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!''

-Kanye West

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

-Matthew Lewis

"I don't look at paparazzi photos. And most of my friends don't want to be photographed, so they walk four feet to the side. If you see a photo of me laughing, that's why - because my friends don't want to walk with me."

-Olivia Palermo

''Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old'.''

-Kendall Jenner

"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 were paparazzi following us. It's just part of the business."

-Tinsel Korey

''I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.''

-Stacey Dash

''You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.''

-Louise Linton