Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

I live my life on TV - it's like a home video.

Can public men have private lives?

Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.

When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.