Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

Wherever I go, people want to come and meet me. At times, I feel a bit suffocated too, as I am unable to be normal and myself.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

As a result of my husband's position, there is newfound media attention to my every move. I did not imagine this level of scrutiny, but I understand it is now part of my life.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

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.

I never, ever worry about anybody recognizing me.

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

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

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

I used to hate being recognised.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.

I don't like to be famous.

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.'

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.