Bill Condon Quotes

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

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 lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.

For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director's son, and I am married to an actress.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.