Jane Hawking Quotes

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

I walk out the house, and there's paparazzi. There's certain things I can't do if I wanted to date or go on a date. It's like, I have to worry about people taking pictures, and it's crazy.

I don't like being a celebrity.

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

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

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

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

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

I don't like the media attention.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

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 know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

I haven't really had any experiences, as far as having paparazzi sit outside of my house or following me around on the street. But, I actually don't really go to places where they do that, unless they knew where I lived or what kind of car I drive.