Top 1200 Public Figure Quotes & Sayings

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.

The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?

I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

I know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.

I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public.

Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and then it goes down the list. You get Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, you don't get Obama, or in fact any western leader. The public doesn't want the whole imperial project. So if you had democracy, it would be all over.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the public, but of course, I'm not perfect. I have a lot of flaws; my husband can tell you that, my friends, even. They know who I am.

Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.

Rumors will always be there. So, good or bad you have to take them in your stride because you are a public figure.

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

I never asked to be a spokesperson or public figure. It just happened.

I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area... to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

Being considered a public figure honestly makes me laugh.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

When you are a public figure you will get love and hate both.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

As a public figure, you deserve to be treated fairly.

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.