Keeley Hawes Quotes

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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 don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

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.

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 wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

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.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

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

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

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.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

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.

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.