Michael Gambon Quotes

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.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

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

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 like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

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

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

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

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

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.