Jim Broadbent Quotes

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that's the dream.

I like being able to go to the grocery store and know that nobody knows what I do or who I am.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

I am a common man. Why do I need security?

I have a regular, normal private life.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

I go to the store. I go get my car fixed. I have friends. I have a life, but nobody needs to know about it. Because I'm just the same as anyone else.

I am not looking for fame. I prefer to have a normal life.

I didn't like the attention and that's what's awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

Life is so much easier without the attention.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

I like coming home because nobody knows who I am. In Cookville, I'm Rich. I'm not a big deal. People like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, they just can't live a normal life and you do feel sorry for those guys.