Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

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.

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

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

I'm a very simple and calm man, but when the camera is switched on, acting begins.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in - the private aspect more than the official side of things.

Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.

Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

I'm not in public life except by accident.

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not the beast we all know.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

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

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I'm not a public person.

I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.