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

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms. And she was Welsh, so, of course, she sang.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Gossip is conversation about people.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

When we did 'Endgame,' we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for 'Gossip Girl' and things like that, where, as an actress, you're required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It's a presentation of your birthday-suit self.

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

I only watched 'The Vampire Diaries' because my friends who loves vampires was like, 'Just watch it.' I was like, 'No, I don't want to watch 'Gossip Girls' with teeth.'

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Gossip is poison.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.