Emmanuel Lewis Quotes

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

I don't like being a celebrity.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

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.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

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.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

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