Quotes About Secrecy

I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.

I was closeted into my mid-twenties and even into my late twenties. It screwed up my relationships; it screwed up things with my family that I've since repaired.

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.

A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.

I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

But I'm grateful for everyone who would want to read a spoiler because it means that they care and want to see the movie. I know what it feels like, as an enormous Star Wars fan myself.

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth." Rachel

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

If you don't want me to see, I guess, don't sleep in the same room as me." He looks at her with a sly smile. "But I'm known for sleeping in school. It's my shtick.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.