Creativity Quote by Holly Valance

There’s a compact survival strategy tucked into Valance’s offhand shrug: if the press is “hard core,” the smartest move is to treat it like weather. Not a moral force, not a tribunal, just noise you dress for and keep walking through. The phrase “and things like that” is doing quiet heavy lifting, bundling paparazzi, gossip columns, and the early-2000s celebrity content mill into a vague category she refuses to dignify with detail. It’s a small act of control in an ecosystem built on taking it away.

“Pretty hard core” is telling, too. She’s not pretending it’s harmless; she’s conceding the intensity while declining to perform injury for the cameras. That balance reads as a performer’s media training and a young star’s self-protection at once: acknowledge the machine, don’t feed it. Then comes the pivot: “but I don’t pay too much attention.” The hedge (“too much”) matters. Total indifference would sound fake; selective disengagement sounds like someone who’s learned the cost of reading every headline.

Culturally, it lands in the era when celebrity was becoming a 24/7 product and the press, newly supercharged by online outlets, demanded constant emotional access. Valance’s refusal isn’t revolutionary, but it’s pointed: she’s asserting that the story being written about her is not the same as her actual life. The intent is calm; the subtext is boundary-setting in a business that treats boundaries as content.