Jack Nicholson Quotes

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Can public men have private lives?

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned

I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.

I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

I believe in having a private life.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

I'm the most private person.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.