Vidya Balan Quotes

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

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.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

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 guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.