Tom Stoppard Quotes

I feel like nobody really knows my story, which I see as a good thing, and I'm kind of happy about that.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

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

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

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.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

I didn't feel ever that people needed to know who I was.

I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.

I like my privacy.

There is a glimpse of me that I'd like to keep private. And I believe that is necessary for my kind of sanity. I'd not like the world to know everything about me.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

In this journey there is so much to my life that I just do privately... I don't really make it a huge priority to tell every single thing that I do every single day about my life.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.