Robert Redford Quotes

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

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.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

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

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

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?

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.