Quotes About Privacy

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I don't think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it's part of who I am now.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.

It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

I like to have some privacy, especially where my family is concerned, so when I'm recognized, I'll usually say something like 'I get that all the time' or 'Theo Epstein? Who's that?'

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that.

I like to lay low. I like to hang back. I like to be the person that's not really recognized.

Does anybody like being recognized? I understand that it's my job. I'm grateful about people who are moved enough by the work to want to say something. But I mourn the loss of anonymity.

I am a very private person, but when you get recognized, it's an opportunity to make somebody's day.

I have been recognized in public but not that often, which is nice.

I can go to cities and go to restaurants or the movies and occasionally I'll get recognized - but not for the most part.

I never, ever worry about anybody recognizing me.

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

I don't like people recognizing me all around the world. I really don't like that, as it's breach of my privacy.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I recommend people don't get in high-profile marriages. There are a lot of people in the world. You don't have to marry someone with their own team of publicists, managers, agents, and lawyers.

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

My past has been recorded, it's been videoed. It's been exploited all over the Internet.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.