Jimmy Wales Quotes

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

If you're famous, you're not free.

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.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

I'm followed everywhere - it has become normal for me.

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

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

I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

Celebrity damages private life.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I feel like I have just become public property.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.