Joe Mantegna Quotes

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

I'm in the public eye.

Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I don't want to be a celebrity.

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.

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

We were at the level of fame where you just can't go anywhere.

I'm very conscious that I've spent my whole adult life in the public eye.

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

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I never, ever worry about anybody recognizing me.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

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

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

I pretty much grew up in public.