Jimmy Smits Quotes

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

As much as possible, you simply don't give out information to the public, that is the first principle.

I'd never discuss anything confidential.

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.

My private life stays private.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Most "off the record" never continues to be "off the record.

It is sometimes necessary to keep matters secret among a few.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

I'm private because I want to be private.

I'm somebody who values anonymity - not just in terms of not wanting people to recognize me or wanting my privacy, but I value anonymity in conversation.

I have no particular formula for staying private.

It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?