Eric F. Goldman Quotes

Even people in public life are entitled to some zone of privacy.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

There is, however, one consolation to anyone who lives in the public eye, namely, that while it may be most difficult to keep the world from knowing where you dine and what you eat and what you wear, so much interest is focused on these somewhat unimportant things, that you are really left completely free to live your own inner life as you wish.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

At some level I've got to have a private life.

I have always believed in a zone of privacy, but I guess I have been rezoned.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.