Roxane Gay Quotes

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

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

Celebrity damages private life.

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

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

My private life became public.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

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 just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

The paparazzi don't care about me.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

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

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

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'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.