Alain Ducasse Quotes

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

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I don't want to be a celebrity.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

We were at the level of fame where you just can't go anywhere.

Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now.

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

I don't want to be that famous.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

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

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous - unless they're Zsa Zsa Gabor - every single moment of every single day.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.