Chelsea Cain Quotes

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

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.

We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

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.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

There's nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That's like people you don't know using names from people that you're intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that's creepy.

I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

I feel like I have just become public property.

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.