Tom Jenkinson Quotes

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

My mom told me many times that when you are outside, you have to be careful what you are saying, and don't repeat the words of what you hear at home.

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions

Secrecy necessarily breeds suspicion.

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

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

All truths are not to be told.

It is only puny secrets that need protecting. Great secrets are protected by public incredulity.

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you aren't - is the antithesis of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.