Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.

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 think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

I don’t understand why Jackie O[nassis] thinks she’s so grand that she doesn’t owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big. You’d think she’d want to scheme and connive to get into history again.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.

There are a lot of things worse to be than the 'Pharrell girl.' I hope that'll wear off.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

You won't see me on TMZ shaving my hair and yelling at the camera guy.

I think that as a public figure, I put myself out there so people can ask me anything they want to ask me.