Thomas Fuller Quotes

It is impossible to differentiate between what I say in my individual capacity from what I say as President.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.

It so happens that after a certain stage, we have to give in to the wishes of the people rather than your own satisfaction. I look at it as my responsibility to satisfy the wishes of the people more than mine.

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

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

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

The public is a part of my real life.

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.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

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.

I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.

I do not believe the president’s sex life is any of our business. After 30 years of political reporting I have been unable to establish a link between marital fidelity and high performance in public office. It really doesn’t matter who they screw in private as long as they don’t screw the public.