Michael Paterniti Quotes

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

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

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

The relief of 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami' is that it seeks to square the person with the provocateuse.

For me, I didn't want to be famous and there was a desire to be me and not 'that guy from the band' so I was happy to see it all go.

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director's son, and I am married to an actress.

I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize 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 don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

I want to be the Denzel of acting and the Michael Jackson of music.

Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.

My father saw a separation between Johnny Cash the entertainer, his business, and the person. The good ole boy. He carried that with him. Or he tried to. Sometimes the lines got crossed.

I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.

I was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but it wasn't just fame.

There is a constant tug-of-war between the competitor within me wanting to win, win, win and the human in me wanting to live a normal life with my family away from the public glare.

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.

I like to keep my normal life under wraps but in front of 80,000 people, I'm going to perform.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

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