Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

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

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 don't really read stuff on myself. I like to just kind of stay away... I don't get too involved in that.

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

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'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

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'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

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

Kanye is so much fun. He's a wonderful person. What I love about Kim and Kanye is that I think they save their happy moments and their smiles for themselves rather than sharing everything with the public. And listen, when a camera is shoved in your face trying to take a selfie, you do not want to smile.

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

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 decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

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.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

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.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.