Charles Barkley Quotes

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?'

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

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

I make the money, and I don't have to take the abuse some of the stars do, opening up their personal life. I can go into a restaurant, sit down, and have a nice meal without being harassed. Arnold Schwarzenegger can't do that.

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

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

My life has been on TV for so long now, I'm used to it.

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

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.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

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.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.