Michael Haneke Quotes

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

I don't like to be always in the press, or on television or always be on seen. It is not how I like to lead my life.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don't even know what I do for a living, so the 'persona' thing doesn't amount to much.

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.