Andrew Benintendi Quotes

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

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I don't like the media attention.

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.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

I definitely would not do a reality show.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

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.

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

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

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.