Isaac Marion Quotes

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

Can public men have private lives?

I’d rather risk being a terrorists victim than live under a surveillance state.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

There is no part of me that wants to have to pull the blinds down when I'm talking to my wife about dinner because some photographer is in a bush outside.

Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

I don't dislike being famous, but there have been moments when you think: 'Is this really worth it?' Sometimes you go through that stage where you're almost like selling your soul. People want all from you, absolutely everything. They want it from you. And everyone's got an opinion about you.

I don't like the media attention.

Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now.

Growing up in the public eye isn't easy.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'