Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

I don't like being a celebrity.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

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

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

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.

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

Rod's always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we're at a restaurant and I'm in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he's trailing behind, looking like my little child!

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.

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

Now I kind of have to watch where I go. I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.