Quotes About Privacy

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

Social media is new to me and I didn't think I would like it, being very protective of my private space, but it's nice to connect to the love and positive vibes folks have to share.

I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: "All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it. However, none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again.

La vostra, cari amici, non è cronaca. E' pornografia dei sentimenti. E a noi non piace fare lo spogliarello della nostra anima davanti a tutti.

Eventually he made it to Buckingham Palace, where the king famously startled Lindbergh by asking him how he had peed during the flight. Lindbergh explained, a touch awkwardly, that he had brought along a pail for the purpose.

In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

Resuming installation process. Do not ever try anything like that again. Remember: we know that you spent a whole afternoon on March 10 watching Paris Hilton home videos. We'll tell your wife. We're Microsoft. Don't fuck with us. Download will be complete in 14 hours.

I look at Danny and Carolyn, the only other people in the room. It's time for me to go, alone and off the record. For years I've been constantly going, but never alone and never off the record. The Secret Service takes every step with me, and at least one aide is almost always there, even when I'm on vacation. A record is kept of where I am every hour.

That's the biggest reason governments keep secrets. Not because they're sensitive. Because the secrets are embarrassing

Every life has layers, Peter. Everyone has things they don't talk about. It doesn't make them less real. It might make them more precious.

New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail--it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret.

If somebody asks if you tweeted your penis and your answer is anything other than No, you tweeted your penis.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.