Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

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

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

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.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

If you're famous, you're not free.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

The fame is the downside. I can't think of many positive things about it - except that when I go to parties, I don't have to stand there like a lemon.

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

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

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.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

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 don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.