Jean Kennedy Smith Quotes

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

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 kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in - the private aspect more than the official side of things.

I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

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.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.

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

When you leave the White House, you wonder if you’ll ever draw a crowd again.

Few individuals enter into public life who would not be wealthier and happier as private citizens—but then they would not be known, would not see their names in the newspaper, except for raising a curious calf or a mammoth cabbage.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

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

Donald Trump was an entertainer and is in many ways.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls - well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I'm choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband's job. I'm very political in private life, and between me and my husband, I know everything that is going on.