Quotes About Privacy

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

Things like 'I'm A Celebrity,' when they're going to a trial, they might reset the camera for a bit or give a briefing that's not on camera. But 'Big Brother,' you see everything.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.