Cat Stevens Quotes

My life in the spotlight has cost me a lot.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

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.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

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

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

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 a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

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

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

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