Tom Junod Quotes

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

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.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

But, for me, I'm such a complex person with so many different facets and so much depth that asking me the same question twice seems almost unfair to the reader. I'm going to die a mystery already, so you want to find out as much about me as you can while I'm still here.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.

I always loved bands with mystique.

Life can be very strange.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

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.

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

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.