Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

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

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

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

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.

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 never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

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 feel like I have just become public property.

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

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

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

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

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.

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