Dev Patel Quotes

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

Honestly, man, I'm not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.

I remember, one time my friend and I were trying to get back on the tender of a boat we were staying on, but there were so many paparazzi we couldn't find it. So now there are all these pictures of me going, 'Where are you?' and just a billion paparazzi not letting me on.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

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

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.