Patti Smith Quotes

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

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

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

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

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

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

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

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 never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

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

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.