Jodie Foster Quotes

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

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.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

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.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

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.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

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.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

My private life became public.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.