Max Beesley Quotes

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

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

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.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

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.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

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

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

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?'

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

Because of television, people are now more exposed about actors - one gets to know about actor's personal life. People know that we are just playing characters.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.