Troy Deeney Quotes

I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

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?'

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

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'm a boxer. I'm a boxer. If you're interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

I don't really like to compare my life as an actress and being my son's mother. My personal life and my professional life are very different, and I try to keep them separate, just because my personal life is so precious to me.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

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

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.