W. H. Auden Quotes

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I wanted my private life to be private. I just wanted to be a fighter.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

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

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

When one chooses a life as a public personality they give up certain levels of privacy but in one's home and intimate moments everyone should be protected.

Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.

Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.

I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.

I am very clear about keeping my professional and personal lives separate. I don't want to talk about certain things, and that's the way I am.

I never brought my job to my house, I never brought my house to the job.

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff.

I'm not a public person.

As Miss Universe, I made a huge effort to keep at least some areas of my life to myself.

I'm not a private person. I like hanging out and talking to fans. But my life isn't so interesting that you want to see the inside of it.