Alicia Vikander Quotes

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

I'm very camera shy, but I realise it's important to promote films.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

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

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

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.

When they say, 'Well, you gotta do some interviews on TV,' I went, 'Oh, I like to watch TV, but I don't wanna be on it.'

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

I don't want to go on a talk show and talk about stuff I don't know about.

I don't read anything about myself.

I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

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 am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'