Justin Timberlake Quotes

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Celebrity damages private life.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

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

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

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

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'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.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

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