Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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 don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

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?

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

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

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

Can public men have private lives?

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

In my own situation, I cannot show anything... And I believe that everybody now understands that, president or not president, one is entitled to have a private life. But of course when one is president, this creates duties and obligations.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are.

I wouldn't want anything on my personal life making its way into the public domain.