Quotes About Privacy

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.

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

The whole Big Brother vision of the world is looming large.

One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

I am not a big fan of seeing kids on social media.

I wouldn't want to be filmed in a bikini for 24 hours a day.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

People only see you in blogs, and they think they know everything about your life.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying.