Keith Urban Quotes

On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

Celebrity damages private life.

I've been involved in all the different awards shows. Apparently, what I wear becomes important.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

I don't think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it's part of who I am now.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

I'm grateful that I didn't get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

I feel like I grew up in quite a public way in front of audiences.