Quotes About Secrecy

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

I like to have some privacy, especially where my family is concerned, so when I'm recognized, I'll usually say something like 'I get that all the time' or 'Theo Epstein? Who's that?'

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

People are more willing to say things when they don't know they're being recorded.

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.

Second City should create a secret handshake, and when you graduate, you have to know it.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.

I've always hated people in costumes with big heads, where you don't know what's behind it.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.

I'm not going to lie, I believe that aliens are already here.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?