Jarvis Cocker Quotes

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

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!

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.

When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

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.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

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

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

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

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

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 don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

Celebrity damages private life.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.