
I think that essentially I'm a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing, so I've been trying to have my cake and eat it, too -— to have my characters be famous yet still live a normal life where I'm not trapped by fame and recognizability.
Источник: Strauss, Neil. "The Man Behind The Mustache" http://web.archive.org/web/20070102223451/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/sacha_baron_cohen_the_real_borat_finally_speaks. // Rolling Stone. — 2 January 2007.