Iris Apfel Quotes

For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don't have Tom Cruise's good looks. I don't have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.