Quotes About Privacy

The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors—one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

I want to be left alone.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.