Quotes About Privacy

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

Sometimes I have no hat, no glasses, and people don't recognise me. When I can work, chill, and no one knows who I am, this is good.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

When everybody recognises you, going out is difficult. But you deal with it.

At home, people very rarely recognise me.

I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn't recognise me.

I used to hate being recognised.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very, very weird. I had to buy myself a great baseball cap.

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.