Claire Bloom Quotes

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.

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.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

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.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

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

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory. It is, perhaps, the modern side of celebrity.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

I don't like the media attention.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

I only want to play, don't like the life in the spotlight.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.

I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.

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

I don't like being a celebrity.