Quotes About Privacy

I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.

I wouldn't say I'm a shy person, but I like my privacy.

Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.

Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

People are always asking me for pictures, signing autographs, everywhere I go. Before, it used to irritate me, but I've learned to handle the situation. I cannot run away unless I lock myself in my room and never go out.

What I am signing and what I'm not, I do not discuss with either of my parents. I decide.

I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.

We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity.

I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try to offer clothes that allow that. I myself do not like being defined so readily, so I imagine that she is similar?

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.

I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.

He did not appreciate the fact that his own fishing trip to Florida, coinciding with his wife giving premature birth, was splattered all over the front pages while Kennedy's tryst with girls on friend George Smathers's boat in Florida, while Jacqueline Kennedy was giving well-planned birth, was treated like a national secret by his media protectors.

She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.