Kalki Koechlin Quotes

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

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

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.

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

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

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.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

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.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

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 mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

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.