Marlo Thomas Quotes

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

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

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

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.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

The thing about being on a reality show is you'll never get respect. You're living your life on television. You're not doing anything special.

I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

I've had enough of being public property.

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.

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.