Quotes About Boundaries

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

Everyone has tacit levels of trust, don't we? In every interaction that takes place in our professional and personal lives we have boundaries that we sort of trust the other person not to breach.

I won't tackle something like furries, because there's nothing new to say. Also, I won't do anything that I think will put my life at risk.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

I can let people take advantage of me at times.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Don't be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.

Don't let people take advantage of you because they will.

If you can't take care of yourself, how the heck are you going to take care of everyone around you?

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.