Jai Courtney Quotes

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

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

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.

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

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.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

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 think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.

I've never had a scandal, but I don't know if that's so much because I'm perfect, or because people aren't caring enough yet. Give it some time. I'll probably be very upset, but it's a part of the gig.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

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.

I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

I don't dislike being famous, but there have been moments when you think: 'Is this really worth it?' Sometimes you go through that stage where you're almost like selling your soul. People want all from you, absolutely everything. They want it from you. And everyone's got an opinion about you.