Liz Phair Quotes

What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

I mind my own business. Too much of attention becomes intrusive at times.

I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I try to avoid talking about my personal life, but I certainly don't get angry about it - I just don't talk about it.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

It gets weird with people wanting to touch my hair and beard boundaries, you know?

They can't hang outside my hotel or come to the gym and stare at me for a half hour and expect me to be like, 'Cool. Awesome.'

I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That's such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that's not okay.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.