Thomas Kretschmann Quotes

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I don't think about being a public persona too much - I just get on with what I'm doing.

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.

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 really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

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.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

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.

It's very easy to get caught up in the world of press and maintaining an image and maintaining this highlight reel that the world expects.

I'm not interested in publicity for myself.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

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

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

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.

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.