Amanda Seyfried Quotes

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

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 normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.

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.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

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.

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.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.