Samantha Bee Quotes

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

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.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

I have never, ever read anything written about me.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

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

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

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

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 did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.