Quotes About Privacy

When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone - my whole life, in fact - and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, 'cause it's not something you just blurt out.

There's things you just don't ask, because if you did, the interview would be over very quickly.

Generally, I think what guys do is they get your number, because if I interview you on my show we can exchange information and I don't have a problem with that. But I think sometimes people are nervous to say things to me because they don't know if I'll blow them up on the air.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders in.

Tim pressed a finger to his lips.  "Careful, my friend.  The walls may have ears.

And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

ANGUSTIAS.—Yo creo, madre, que él me oculta muchas cosas. BERNARDA.—No procures descubrirlas, no le preguntes y, desde luego, que no te vea llorar jamás.

Que es exactamente lo que mi madre no desea: que su sufrimiento y el de sus hijos le sirva de material a un escritor para que componga su libro o al director de cine para que ruede su película, y los aplaudan después, y ganen premios, mientras nosotros seguimos con nuestra tragedia a cuestas.

A quien dices tu secreto das tu libertad

You scatter your forces by talking about your affairs. Don't discuss your business with your family. Silence is golden!

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Nobody's mind ever remains a blank page, however carefully they are locked away from the world.

He brushed a fingertip over his lips and signalled across the room. "Now I'm going to take you home." But it meant something else, too. Grania's cheeks reddened furiously when he made this public-private display, though no one else had noticed.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

We tiptoe around like we're the Frank family and the Gestapo is downstairs. The baby monitor is in our room, and the unspoken rule is that when the kids go down, so do we. So at seven P.M., I'm in bed waiting for the sandman to come. I can't watch TV, because the noise may wake up the kids; I can't listen to music with my iPod earbuds, because then I can't hear the monitor; and I can't have sex, because that could wake up Janice.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

A friend from work should be a compartmentalized and exclusive friendship; that is, my friend from work, as opposed to our friend from my work. Everyone should be free to go to lunch or dinner with a good friend from work without your significant other sitting there at the table letting go with bull-snort exhales of boredom laced with rising irritation while you and your friend are having what amounts to a private conversation about office intrigue.

Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.

We all need a few minutes of privacy sometimes