Quotes About Secrecy

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.

My beard is just an ongoing effort to hide my face as much as possible.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

I'm secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

We would never comment on private correspondence.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.