Hamish Bowles Quotes

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I hate celebrities.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

Celebrities say the darnedest things.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Members of my family don’t get it…. The further away you’re removed from this chair [the King’s throne] the more of a prince or princess you are … the more you believe in absolute monarchy.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.

Troubled celebrities are a dime a dozen.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot.