Jennifer Garner Quotes

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.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

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

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

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

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

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 say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.