Ben Whishaw Quotes

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Can public men have private lives?

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are.

My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

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

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.