Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

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 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 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.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

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.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

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

I'm very conscious that I've spent my whole adult life in the public eye.

My life has been on TV for so long now, I'm used to it.

I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.

I've never had a very great public life.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

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

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 understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

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 never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.