James Purefoy Quotes

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I don't do celebrity.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

Celebrity damages private life.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

It's true that sometimes we have paparazzi or some kind of photographers following us, but you have to live normal. I mean, if you try to not go to the supermarket or not go to the cinema, you won't live properly, and you won't enjoy living. We are trying to be as normal as we can.

I enjoy fame, but I like normal, too. Going out is difficult; you are recognised, and you cannot be normal anymore... you start living in a bubble, and I am a normal guy.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

'In the Making' reveals the truth about 'being in the limelight' as a young celebrity.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

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

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.