Robyn Davidson Quotes

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

No relationship is easier just because you're in the public eye.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

I'm sure it's 10 times easier to handle the criticism and the paparazzi and all of that stuff with somebody by your side that you can share some of that with.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

Can two celebrities actually make a marriage work?

I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed.