Nigella Lawson Quotes

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

I wouldn't want to be filmed in a bikini for 24 hours a day.

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I am definitely not into the exposed look. I am not one of those people who flashes their stomach or anything like that, because I don't have the confidence.

I don't really like to be filmed.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

It sucks to not have any privacy.

I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

I don't want people to look at me.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.