Rohinton Mistry Quotes

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on!

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

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.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

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

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.

Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.

When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.