Vanessa Kirby Quotes

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

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 don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

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

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

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 want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'