Avril Lavigne Quotes

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

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.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, 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.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

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

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

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Celebrity damages private life.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

When you get to a certain level of recognizability, celebrity, you can't go out of the house without someone going, "Can I just have one photo?" I don't mind, by the way, if anyone wants one we can take some photos. But sometimes you just wanna stay in the house or in the hotel room with the shades closed.

I don't like being a celebrity.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

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'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

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 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 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 try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.