Quotes About Privacy

Sometimes fans land up at my home. Some time ago an 80-year-old lady from Chandigarh came home and wrote off her property to me. I had to hire legal help to get rid of the unwanted gift.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect - no, demand - no less for myself.

I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was.

To be honest, I'm a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend's photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity... that's sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.

Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I purposely don't put my family on there, I don't put my kids on there. Because I think these days everybody wants to share everything - and then they get upset when people judge all their stuff. So, I figure let them judge things that you're okay with them judging.

You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there's an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.