Warren Beatty Quotes

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

I learned that the public and the press don't need to know everything about you, or they might turn on you.

No way will I put my family and my life on the TV or be involved with something like a dating show or any type of reality show.

Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.

I never go public with my personal life.

I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.

I'm not the interview-giving kind.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.

If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

A brand is a little different. Me, as Carrie the person, wanders around in sweatpants. And then, when I have to be Carrie Underwood, there is definitely a departure from your human side. It's good to make that separation from person to brand.