Quotes About Privacy

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Sometimes I like [being famous], sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

I never enjoyed being famous.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.