Salman Rushdie Quotes

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

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.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

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.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

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

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

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.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

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

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!