When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I never talk about my next project.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says ‚actor.‘ It don’t say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that’s one thing that keeps me humble.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I don’t have anything to hide.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

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