James McBride Quotes

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

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.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

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.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

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

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

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 would never be on a reality show.