Quotes About Privacy

Some things are never said, or heard, if more than one pair of ears is listening.

First off, make sure you won't be interrupted during your religious (or magical) rite. If you're at home, tell your family that you'll be busy and aren't to be disturbed. If alone, take the phone off the hook, lock the doors, and pull the blinds, if you wish. It's best if you can ensure that you will be alone and undisturbed for some time.

Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.

Privacy on a ship at sea is about as real as fucking fairy piss

Discretion is a pastime for other people.

Why, my client wondered, would a guy like me make his living like this? Well, you'd think the three hundred dollars he paid just to watch me take a shower would have given him a clue.

He installed a mirror outside his study window so he could see guests coming up the drive before they saw him, allowing him time to brace himself or to hide.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

"Firewall" seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides "military" and "government?"

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.