Quotes About Privacy

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

I don't really like attention too much.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

But everyone asks me who my dad is and I will never reveal it. It's too much ammunition for the internet.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.

I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.

I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.