Tom Junod Quotes

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

The relief of 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami' is that it seeks to square the person with the provocateuse.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

I am intensely private and don't live out loud despite what I do for a living.

You find out about me because of my music, and that's how I want to keep it.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the public, but of course, I'm not perfect. I have a lot of flaws; my husband can tell you that, my friends, even. They know who I am.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private 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.