John Cusack Quotes

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

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

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

Celebrity damages private life.

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

I think some people have gotten used to the paparazzi culture and they know they cannot avoid it. If you ask me, some people like it, but I have a different opinion.