Elliot Knight Quotes

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

My private life became public.

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

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.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

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.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

I have always believed in a zone of privacy, but I guess I have been rezoned.

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.

I would be in class, and we'd talk about influencers and brand deals, and my face would pop up on the screen and they'd start talking about me! They had no idea that I was sitting in the class. I never wanted anyone to know.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?