Emmy Rossum Quotes

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

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 just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

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

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

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

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

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 guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.