Gerard Pique Quotes

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

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

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 get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in - the private aspect more than the official side of things.

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 like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

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.

I feel like I've been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I'm treating it in the same way - I've always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn't get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don't go to places to be seen and that's not going to change.

There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

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

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'