Paul Scofield Quotes

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'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

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

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 don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

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 guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

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 always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

I'm not a private person. I like hanging out and talking to fans. But my life isn't so interesting that you want to see the inside of it.

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.