Michael Rapaport Quotes

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So it pains me to think people might feel they have an insight into my personal matters, which they most certainly do not.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

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.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

There are actors I know personally, or I've heard them say, "The less known about me, the better, because I just want people to think of me as the character." I think Matt Damon said that recently. He has a point and I think I get that.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

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 wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.