Quotes About Self-disclosure

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers' willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they're doing... people are even willing to disclose where they're at. And this phenomenon is going to create huge commerce opportunities on the web.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

I'm not consciously hiding anything.' After Ruth said that she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritation, the fears? How tiresome that would be.

Son, frankness is a virtue only when you're talkin' about yourself, and then it's a nuisance.

I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

My life is pretty much an open book.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

we protect the truth principally by telling the truth about ourselves.

My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Tell me–how old are you, Reuben? I'm thirty-eight. How is that for total honesty? Do you know many women who volunteer they're thirty-eight?

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.