Quotes About Secrecy

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

One thing I love is that I don't have a lot of people running around Hollywood saying 'I've had her,' because guys love to talk, especially about celebrities.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't see why we should be talking about our private lives and keep it an open book.

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.