John Grisham Quotes

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

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 never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.

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

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

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

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

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.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

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.

I'm followed everywhere - it has become normal for me.