Michelle Fairley Quotes

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

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.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

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 just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.