Angelina Jolie Quotes

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

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

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.

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.

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.