Winona Ryder Quotes

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

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

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

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

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

I want to be known for this character on TV two nights a week, and then I want to go away and live my life in private.

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

Wherever I go, people want to come and meet me. At times, I feel a bit suffocated too, as I am unable to be normal and myself.

I only want to play, don't like the life in the spotlight.

As Miss Universe, I made a huge effort to keep at least some areas of my life to myself.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.

I am private.

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.