Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

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

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

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

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

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

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

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

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.