Holly Hunter Quotes

My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.

It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my time.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

The moment I am off the field, it's my personal time.

I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.

If I go to the city, I'm happy that I'm free, that nobody knows who I am. I guess we have done a good job there in keeping the private life really private.

I am private.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

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.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.